President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee shielded one of Hillary Clinton's top State Department aides from scrutiny about his use of a personal email account to conduct official business.
Then-U.S. district judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in 2015 denied Gawker's request for details about press aide Philippe Reines's stewardship of the account in the context of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, which sought emails Reines traded with 34 different media outlets.
Jackson blocked Gawker's request, calling it "Extraordinary" and claiming there was no proof that Reines had acted in "Bad faith" by using a personal email address.
The State Department asked Reines to turn over whatever government records were in his possession around the time of the Gawker lawsuit, which he did via his lawyers in July 2015, two years after he left government service.
Jackson therefore agreed to give the State Department additional time to sort through the "New" Reines records and turn them over to Gawker.
Gawker put the screws to Reines, seeking affidavits that swore he had turned over all relevant documents and describing his methods for surrendering records to State.
In a separate lawsuit, Sullivan required Clinton herself and two of her top aides, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, to submit affidavits along the lines Gawker sought.
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Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Biden's Supreme Court Pick Shielded Top Clinton Aide Amid Email Scandal
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