Federal appeals court revives lawsuit over Clinton email scandal

A US federal appeals court has revived one of the legal challenges seeking to force the US government to sue Hillary Clinton over a private email server she used as secretary of state.

On Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ruling that the Department of State’s review of the emails was sufficient and that any appeal for the attorney general’s involvement was “moot.”

The court ruled that the law in fact requires such intervention, providing a new opening for President-elect Donald Trump and his attorney general nominee, Senator Jeff Sessions, to get involved in supervising the release of more Clinton emails.

Tuesday’s decision pertains to emails Clinton and her aides sent and received using private email addresses and a server in her New York residence to conduct State Department business.

While the State Department and National Archives made efforts to recover the emails,…

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