The Supreme Court denied a government watchdog group’s bid to compel former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to face a deposition over her controversial private email.
“Hillary Clinton ignored the law but received special protection from both the courts and law enforcement,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in response to the ruling against his organization. “For countless Americans, this double standard of justice has destroyed confidence in the fair administration of justice.”
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Judicial Watch was attempting to appeal a decision last year by a federal appeals court that ruled that Clinton could not be compelled to sit for a deposition.
The group was hoping to depose Clinton and her aide Cheryl Mills in relation to her use of a private email server leading up the 2012 terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi that resulted in the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three American security contractors.
But the justices declined the appeal in an unsigned order without comment.
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Clinton’s use of the private server was already the subject of an FBI investigation, though the agency declined to charge her despite a lengthy statement by then-FBI Director James Comey that laid out the evidence against Clinton just months before the 2016 presidential election.
Then-candidate Donald Trump relentlessly attacked Clinton on her use of the private email throughout the campaign, an issue that some analysts believe cost the Democrat in a close election against Trump.
