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Why open records laws may not apply to all of Hillary Clinton’s State Dept.-era e-mails

dcogcadmin | March 8, 2015

Can open records laws be used to access all of the e-mails sent by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state?

A new court ruling this week suggests: probably not.

A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative organization, could not use the Freedom of Information Act to gain access to the private email of a government official. The judge reasoned that the act can be used [Read More]