Both our leading presidential candidates are currently in court battles
It's baaack. The Trump University case, that is. And with it comes a fight brought by media organizations, who are hoping to get their hands on Trump's videotaped testimony in the two class-action lawsuits, Politico reports.
As Trump's team fights to keep his videotape private, the other presidential candidate is working avoid a videotaped court deposition of her own. After a conservative group attempted to call Hillary Clinton for a sworn deposition in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, Clinton's lawyers have countered with a legal brief in federal court, submitted Tuesday. The judge handling the case will hear arguments on Monday about whether or not he should order the deposition.
Trump, though, might have a tricky case to make in the protection of his testimony. While his lawyers have argued that making the video public would thereby offer it as ammo for political opponents and could ruin his chances of finding an impartial jury, the media claims that Trump's frequent complaints about the case in televised speeches and interviews voids his assertion that the release of the video is unfair.
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Trump has defended his now-defunct Trump University, which has been called a scam and fraud, and he controversially blasted the case's American-born Latino judge for an alleged bias against him.
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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.
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