A U.S. federal appeals court revived two Hillary Clinton email server lawsuits on Tuesday, overturning a lower court’s ruling that Hillary could not be sued for her mishandling of emails whilst serving as Secretary of State. Judge Stephen Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of Judicial Watch and Cause of Action in their lawsuits against the State Department over thousands of missing Clinton emails. Politico.com reports: Watchdog groups Judicial Watch and Cause of Action filed separate suits in 2015, asking that Secretary of State John Kerry and the head of the National Archives, Archivist David Ferriero, be required to refer the Clinton email issue to the Justice Department to consider filing a civil suit to get missing federal records back. D.C. Circuit Judge Stephen Williams said State’s requests to Clinton and the FBI for copies of Clinton’s emails were not necessarily enough to fulfill State’s obligation to pursue any missing messages. “Even though those efforts bore some fruit, the Department has not explained why shaking the tree harder — e.g., by following the statutory mandate to seek action by the Attorney General — might not bear more still. It is therefore abundantly clear that, [...]
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