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Yesterday the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a D.C. Circuit ruling that barred Judicial Watch from deposing Hillary Clinton about her long-ago email server. Hosanna, 2016 is finally, finally over.

Hillary Clinton left the State Department in 2013, and in the intervening eight years, congressional and executive branch investigations have exhaustively plumbed the issue of her infamous email server. Nonetheless, the conservative group has been suing since 2014 seeking to depose her for what is certain to be smoking gun evidence of wrongdoing. If Tom Fitton can just get in a room with the former Secretary, then theyll finally be able to LOCK HER UP for doing Benghazis with her emails or something.

(Yeah, he always looks like that. Real men dont need leg day. Or fiber.)

They got this close last March when U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberthordered Clinton to sit for questioning on her subjective motivation for using a private email server as part of Judicial Watchs interminable FOIA suit against the State Department.

When did [Secretary Clinton] first learn that States records management employees were unaware of the existence of her private server? Judge Lambeth wondered. And why did she think that using a private server to conduct State Department business was permissible under the law in the first place?

The judge failed to explain how Clintons subjective understanding of the legality of her email setup in 2011 might be relevant to a FOIA search in 2020 an omission the appeals court observed in its reversal last August.

Here, the District Court ordered Secretary Clintons deposition primarily to probe her motives for using a private email server and her understanding of the State Departments records-management obligations, D.C. Circuit Judge Robert Wilkins wrote. However, neither of these topics is relevant to the only outstanding issue in this FOIA litigation whether the State Department has conducted an adequate search for talking points provided to Ambassador Rice following the September 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi, or for any communications or records related to those specific talking points.

So Fitton squeezed into his best spandex dress shirt and stomped over to 1 First Street, confident that his pals Amy, Brett, Neil, Sam, and Clarence would put the situation to rights. Sadly, no.

The case was buried deep in the Certiorari Denied section of yesterdays orders list, with nary a dissent registered from the conservative stalwarts who likely owe their job to a rightwing media sphere which worked so hard to make Hillary Clintons stupid emails seem like the crime of the century.

But Tom Fitton knows who is to blame, and it is the Deep State.

Hillary Clinton ignored the law but received special protection from both the courts and law enforcement. For countless Americans, this double standard of justice has destroyed confidence in the fair administration of justice. Americans would never have known about Hillary Clintons email and related pay for play scandals but for Judicial Watchs diligence. We expect that the Biden State and Justice Departments will continue to protect her and cover up their own misconduct as we press for additional accountability through the courts.

The statement appeared on Judicial Watchs website, alongside fulsome praise for the groups peerless victory in Judge Lamberths courtroom. The appellate reversal was not mentioned.

Thus ends #ClintonBodyCountGhazigate, the biggest scandal the United States has ever known. Not with a bang, but with a whine followed by 10,000 bicep curls and a Newsmaxhit.

Its a brave new world.

Elizabeth Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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The New York Times on Monday characterized former Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a partisan combatant who is flouting protocol that former secretaries remain quiet after their exit from public service.

Out of office for more than two months, Mr. Pompeo has not stopped punching, the Times wrote. In a series of speeches, interviews and Twitter posts, he is emerging as the most outspoken critic of President Biden among former top Trump officials. And he is ignoring, much as he did in office, the custom that current and former secretaries of state avoid the appearance of political partisanship.

The criticism glossed over the fact that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who served under President Barack Obamas tenure from 2009 to 2013, later went on to become the Democratic presidential nominee just three years after leaving the State Department. Obamas next secretary of state, former Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, remained a critic of Republicans throughout the Trump years and re-entered the White House under President Joe Biden as the climate czar.

While the Times acknowledged the political presence of Clinton and Kerry in their post-diplomatic careers, the paper de-emphasized their frequent criticisms and presented their partisanship as mere pushback from Pompeos allies.

Mr. Pompeos political strategist did not respond to messages seeking comment or an interview, but people close to Mr. Pompeo said Democratic secretaries of state before him, including John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, were openly critical of President Donald J. Trump, the paper wrote. But Mr. Kerry largely held his tongue for the first months of the Trump presidency, growing more openly critical if less relentlessly so after Mr. Trump announced in June 2017 that the United States would pull out of the Paris climate agreement.

On Clinton, the Times merely wrote, By the time Mr. Trump took office earlier that year, Mrs. Clinton, his election opponent, had long shed any nonpartisan diplomatic veneer.

Clinton had announced her bid for president as early as 2015, just two years after leaving the Obama administration. Shortly after she lost in 2016, the former secretary of state went on a book tour where she blamed the Russians and has since continued to spew debunked conspiracies alleging her political opponents are agents of the Kremlin government.

By May 2017, Kerry railed against the new Trump administration in a speech to Harvard graduates telling them they should learn to speak Russian to work in the White House, as a special counsel probe went underway to investigate Trump. Kerry also engaged in shadow diplomacy with Iran in 2018 to undermine the Trump administration and save the Iran deal.

But Pompeo, according to the Times, is breaking protocol to probe presidential ambitions.

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In the last few days it was revealed by the NY Posts Page Six that Mia Farrow erased her adopted daughter from a photo taken with Hillary Clinton. The daughter, Tam, died in 2000. Mia said it was an accidental overdose. but another adopted son, Moses, says Tam committed suicide.

Now is Mia is upset that people are discussing the deaths of 3 of her adopted children.

Mia writes on Twitter: Few families are perfect, and any parent who has suffered the loss of a child knows that pain is merciless and ceaseless. However, some vicious rumors based on untruths have appeared online concerning the lives of three of my children. To honor their memory, their children and every family that has dealt with the death of a child, I am posting this message.

Mia says: Tam died from an accidental prescription overdose related to the agonizing migraines she suffered, and her heart ailment. Moses says Tam killed herself after fighting with Mia.

Two other adopted children died, as well. Thaddeus committed suicide, he was found in his car dead from shooting himself. Adopted daughter Lark died of AIDS.

Mia blames Thaddeus death on a relationship gone wrong. Thaddeus, by the way, was given the middle name Wilk by Mia, who named him for late judge Elliot Wilk who presided over the Allen v. Farrow custody case. She was sucking up to the judge, who Woody Allen told us in his memoir last year had strange personal issues of his own.

Larks death was the only non suicide. That gets the most ink from Mia because its the least embarrassing.

Mia writes My daughter Lark was an extraordinary woman, a wonderful daughter, sister, partner and mother to her own children. She died at 35 from complications of HIV/AIDS, which she contracted from a previous partner. Despite her illness she lived a fruitful and loving life with her children and longtime partner. She succumbed to her illness & died suddenly in the hospital on Christmas, in her partners arms.

In her entire post, Mia never explains why she scrubbed Tam from a photo taken with Hillary Clinton.

In the recent Allen v. Farrow documentary, Mia was portrayed as mother of the year. There was no mention of the childrens deaths.

Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. He wrote the Intelligencer column for NY Magazine in the mid 90s, reporting on the OJ Simpson trial, as well as for the real Parade magazine (when it was owned by Conde Nast), and has written for the New York Observer, Details, Vogue, Spin, the New York Times, NY Post, Washington Post, and NY Daily News among many publications. He is the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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One of the issues that are currently plaguing the Senate is the filibuster, as more and more Democrats are calling for its abolishment due to its racist origins and its empowerment to the minority party. Joining the list of prominent Democrats is former presidential candidate and secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

Mrs. Clinton joins the growing number of Democrats that are supporting the abolishment of the filibuster in the upper chamber. Speaking in an upcoming episode of the Just Something About Her podcast by former White House communications director under the Obama administration Jennifer Palmieri. Palmieri also served as Clintons campaign aide in 2016. The episode is set to be released on Thursday. The filibuster gives empowerment to the minority party by setting a 60-vote threshold to pass a piece of legislation.

The former Senator also cited that the filibuster should not become a hurdle when it comes to constitutional matters, specifically when it comes to voting rights. Since the Democratic party has taken control of the Senate, they have ramped up their campaign to get rid of the move.

This also comes at a time when Republicans in state legislatures are passing bills that would make it more difficult to vote, disproportionately affecting communities of color.

The filibuster stands in the way of a lot of legislation and whether or not it can be either reformed and amended or eliminated is what we will find out in the next weeks, said Mrs. Clinton. It certainly should be lifted for constitutional matters and I would put election law matters at the top of the list.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court ruled to block the lower court order by right-wing watchdog Judicial Watch to depose the former secretary of state regarding her use of a private email account in relation to a lawsuit on the 2012 attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

In August 2020, a federal appeals court ruled that Mrs. Clinton could not be brought to appear for a deposition in a lawsuit regarding State Department emails. The denial, announced on Monday, was left unsigned.

Back in 2019, the State Department issued details of an investigation saying that there has been no substantial evidence that proves mishandled information in the issue surrounding Mrs. Clintons use of a private email server.

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Am I the only one who feels like Im living in an old-fashioned monster movie, with mobs of chanting peasants bearing pitchforks and torches as they march upon on a dark, foreboding castle? Or am I just spending too much time watching TV news and reading about politics online?

Anybody who, like me, watched the first couple of episodes of the HBO documentary series Q: Into the Storm would sure have to wonder. I wont be watching the rest; my creep quotient has been exceeded. The very idea that this international cast of oddballs could keep millions in thrall to the lunatic delusion that a secretive cabal of Satan-worshipping, baby-killing pedophiles led by Hillary Clinton rules the world and that only Donald Trump can save us

Well, its like something out of Masters of Atlantis, Charles Portis droll novel about two flimflam artists who found a religious sect based upon the lost wisdom of a kingdom beneath the sea. Soon they fall to fighting over accumulated heresies, much as QAnon adepts appear to be falling out as one failed prophecy follows another.

Herman Melvilles The Confidence-Man also comes to mind. Americans have always had a weakness for mystic lore.

The internet allows, nay encourages, like-minded cranks and opportunists from around the world to communicate: California, New Jersey, South Africa and the Philippines. Some of the same types who peddle extended auto warranties or trick you into giving your Social Security number over the phone are doing their best to monetize an ever-evolving delusional system.

So who is the mysterious Q, author of thousands of gnomic prophecies? Steve Bannon? Stephen Miller? Trump himself? Not possible. The first two are too cynical even to fake the required level of superstition. Trumps incapable of talking about anything other than himself for any sustained period.

The real question is: Who cares?

Pretty much the first thing that strikes you on your initial visit to a penitentiary or a psychiatric hospital is how ordinary everybody seems, like people you might encounter at the grocery store. Indeed, most QAnon devotees appear to conduct their ordinary lives all right: buying cars, getting haircuts, taking the trash to the curb, etc.

Its only when HBOs subjects touch upon their ruling passion that one understands that theyre rapt with delusion, imagining evil conspiracies and dark plots carrying not flaming torches, but little glowing screens.Otherwise, its downright medieval: It used to be Jews who supposedly murdered Christian infants. Now its Democrats. In the 16th century, the bubonic plague needed to be explained; now its COVID-19.

Reasoning with adepts of arcane lore is largely futile. I once had a neighbor who was deeply into astrology, pondering the heavens, casting detailed horoscopes and ascribing deep significance to the movements of the stars. He was a slender fellow with a deep, sepulchral voice youd expect to hear coming from a 300-pound defensive tackle. In real life, he was a banker.

One day my wife complained out loud about the chaotic state of my office. (I used to urge her to avoid going in there if it bothered her. Orderly filing systems never worked for me. I could find things only by remembering where they were. Now I have a computer.) So anyway, the neighbor laughed his booming laugh.

Well, its a sure thing hes not a Virgo, he chortled.

Uh-oh. Unless my birth certificates forged, a Virgo is precisely what I am. A Virgo on the cusp of Libra, whatever that is, a combination supposedly making me deeply inclined toward order; basically a neat freak.

Eleven-to-1 odds in his favor, and my man had shot himself in the metaphorical foot. If you think it gave him pause, youve known no True Believers. Without skipping a beat, he recast my horoscope to reveal a hidden passion for a deeper order than my wife perceived. After all, what is writing but the process of putting words in proper places?

Concluding that astrology is simply humbug was beyond his reach. To be fair, the newspaper in which youre reading this column probably publishes horoscopes. Its an ancient, essentially harmless superstition.Just so the impassioned necromancers of QAnon.

After the Trumpist mob failed in its attempt to reverse Dear Leaders electoral defeat on Jan. 6, the faithful pivoted to a new prediction: The Storm, so called, would take place on March 4, with Trump triumphantly reinaugurated and wreaking vengeance upon Satanic Democrats.

Mass executions would follow outside the U.S. Capitol: Hillary, Bill Gates, George Soros. All the devil-worshipping child murderers would be put to death in photogenically grisly ways. Hanging would be too good for them.

Instead, Trumps stuck at Mar-a-Lago, giving meandering wedding toasts about the lost election and going on Fox News to peddle fantasies about the Jan. 6 rioters hugging and kissing the police and the guards.If he were your grandpa, youd hide his car keys.

Arkansas Times columnist Gene Lyons is a National Magazine Award winner and co-author of The Hunting of the President (St. Martins Press, 2000). You can email Lyons at eugenelyons2@yahoo.com.

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