Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign and aligned super PAC violated federal election rules, court says

A federal appeals court ruled that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and a liberal super PAC Correct the Record violated federal election rules.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said the Clinton campaign and the super PAC incorrectly used an “internet exemption” to setup a “Benghazi Hearing War Room” to respond to critics during the campaign but did not report it as a campaign expense, according to the 36-page decision.

"We hold that the Commission acted contrary to law in dismissing the complaint. Because we conclude that the internet exemption cannot be read to exempt from disclosure those expenditures that are only tangentially related to an eventual internet message or post, the Commission’s reading of the internet exemption stretches it beyond lawful limits," the court said.