Appeals court nixes Hillary Clinton deposition on emails

A federal appeals court panel has unanimously overturned a lower-court order requiring Hillary Clinton to provide a sworn deposition about her use of a private email account and server during her four years as secretary of state.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, 3-0, that the conservative group Judicial Watch was not entitled to depose Clinton in connection with an eight-year-old Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records of details about information National Security Adviser Susan Rice discussed during interviews in 2012 about the deadly attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

During the protracted litigation surrounding the email saga, Clinton answered written questions under penalty of perjury about her email practices.

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