Judge Halts Depositions For Bill And Hillary Clinton
Source: Politico
A federal judge has blocked a conservative activist's plans to force presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton to testify in depositions stemming from a lawsuit claiming the Clinton Foundation operated as a racketeering enterprise shaking down donors in exchange for official favors.
U.S. District Court Judge Donald Middlebrooks issued an order Tuesday barring legal gadfly Larry Klayman from proceeding with his plans to conduct videotaped depositions of the Clintons in Washington next week. Middlebrooks's order (posted here) does not offer a reason for the ruling.
Lawyers for the Clintons and for the foundation have asked Middlebrooks to toss out the case and to halt discovery while he considers whether the lawsuit should be dismissed. The Clinton lawyers contend Klayman has a history of filing meritless lawsuits and that he should not be allowed to demand evidence in connection with a case that is likely to be dismissed.
Klayman's lawsuit alleges that Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state interfered with responses to Freedom of Information Act requests he filed and that the Clintons used the system to obscure a scheme to demand to trade official favors for donations to the Clinton Foundation.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2015/07/judge-halts-depositions-for-bill-and-hillary-clinton-210968.html
randys1
(16,286 posts)on the battlefield, a traitor
It goes on and on
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)It should be a criminal offense to harass someone with lawsuits.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)but that opens them up for discovery as well. He is just a little chihuahua barking at an elephant. Best ignored and dismissed.
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)Just hearing Klayman's name makes me mad
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Their only fault? They rained on the GOP parade of 16 years of repuke rule under which they could have appointed 7 scalias to SCOTUS.
Thanks to Bill Clinton's presidency (and then Obama's), we have some liberal leaning rulings lately.
Now Hillary is our best chance to have 16 years of democratic rule and 7 liberal justices on SCOTUS (Alito and Roberts are too young to croak in the next 16 years.)
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)I do worry that Scalia is some sort of evil immortal being.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Over the past several decades, the country has repeatedly elected centrists except the 1980 and 2004 elections where there were extenuating circumstances. Too far left or too far right is poison in the race for independents.
HRC is immune from attacks because any attack on her is "seen that already" ... not so with Bernie .. especially when the mantra os socialist is repeated over and over and over.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)for the "Ideal" given what the alternative has given us for Decades.
We keep at it because we are compelled to because of our convictions and experience. Bernie is GRASSROOTS.... In these times its even more important.
TBF
(32,106 posts)and the "evil commie socialist" labeling has become pretty ludicrous given that anyone watching FOX news will slap the label on anyone to the left of Ronald Reagan. I think we're ok there.
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)If his strategy can work well enough to actually defeat Hillary, who I view as the only political heavyweight in the entire 2016 race, then I believe that he can win the GE.
But if not, in the GE , the Republicans have no credibility, and they will have so much less after the Clown Car tours the nation.
In Bill's final year we had a $236 billion dollar surplus......The Bush-Gore Debates were over how to spend the trillions in surpluses. Bush did figure it out, as he left office we had a $1.3 trillion dollar deficit and we were losing 700,000 jobs a month.....how could you put possibly put Repubs back in charge?........I swear that this TV ad writes itself.
tazkcmo
(7,303 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)That's the problem! Now you want to elect another one. You do know the definition of insanity, don't you?
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)The country includes 66% who are NOT democrats
If we want our side to win POTUS, we need to offer the 66% a centrist and not a radical left socialist no matter how endearing he may be to us. If we don't do it, the other side will offer a centrist like Jeb Bush or Kasich and will WIN.
You do want a democrat to win the White House don't you?
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)You are so damn sure of yourself. You win a shiny new baby Unicorn!
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)GOP who does it for free, of course pretending not to be.
Legal trolls are a bad as social media trolls or fake video trolls or politician trolls.
still_one
(92,433 posts)Archae
(46,356 posts)He molested his own kids, and screwed up many other ways as well.
He's a regular at WND, which should tell you how far-right he is.
http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2011/05/213-larry-klayman.html
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)joshcryer
(62,277 posts)I got at least a quarter of those people reccing that dreck on ignore.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Gothmog
(145,631 posts)candelista
(1,986 posts)Was money donated in exchange for favors while Hillary was Secretary of State? The Republicans will certainly raise this question in the general election. Hillary is going to have to deal with it sometime.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,371 posts)... she won't have to deal with it, won't have to answer question.
And so far, she's unbeatable.
candelista
(1,986 posts)still_one
(92,433 posts)bandwagon while you are at it
candelista
(1,986 posts)You remind me of her personality.
still_one
(92,433 posts)still_one
(92,433 posts)Gothmog
(145,631 posts)Beacool
(30,253 posts)A blast from the past if there ever was one. That RW nut job is like a pitbull with a bone. He has filed dozens of lawsuits against the Clintons and not won one. Most of them get thrown out of court.