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The court should not countenance the abuse of its resources — or allow significant burdens to be imposed on defendants, many of them individuals who have devoted their careers to public service — in service of plaintiff’s political stunt.
—Hillary Clinton and her co-defendants in the RICO suit filed by former president Donald Trump, asking Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks for sanctions in the case. The motion argues that the lawsuit — which has since been thrown out of court — was meritless and that plaintiffs “unreasonably and vexatiously multiplied the proceedings.”