Judge allows DNC to depose Spicer on election night activities

[deminks]

https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2017/11/29/judge-allows-dnc-to-depose-sean-spicer-on-election-night-activities-125849

A federal judge said Wednesday that he’ll allow the Democratic National Committee to depose Sean Spicer, the former Republican National Committee communications director and White House spokesman, on whether he violated a 35-year-old consent decree barring the RNC from engaging in ballot security or voter suppression efforts.

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But Vazquez agreed with the DNC that a POLITICO article about Spicer spending time on the fifth floor of Trump Tower on election night — the nerve center of the campaign’s poll-monitoring operation and data war room that day — raised enough questions to warrant his deposition. Spicer at the time worked for the RNC. Party staffers had been given strict instructions to avoid the floor, POLITICO reported.

“It would seem as though there’s a lot unanswered by the article and a deposition of Mr. Spicer would be able to address those clearly,” Vazquez said.

Vazquez said the deposition should not last more than four hours and gave permission for a “targeted” search of Spicer’s emails from that day relating to his presence on the fifth floor.

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I love the smell of depositions in the morning, afternoon, or evening.

[maranadem]

1. Two words. I cant recall. OK three words

[tazkcmo]

2. They're going to beat the record

It's a record they probably don't really want. It's the record held by the Nixon Administration of the number of people connected to a president's Administration that went to . I wonder if the British are betting on this? They bet on everything over there.

[Gothmog]

3. This could be important in that we could extend the consent order in RNC v. DNC