White House says it will block release of Clinton emails to Obama

Friday evening, #AUCShutItDown, an Atlanta-based group affiliated with Black Lives Matter, said in a statement that they protested Clinton’s event so they could press her to directly address issues facing the African-American community, particularly in regard to policing.

The Clinton presidential campaign disagreed with the initial review findings. Both candidates have called for ending mass incarceration in the United States, an issue that resonates strongly among black voters who will play a key role in choosing a nominee. She was interrupted by demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement.

But while Clinton reached out to African-Americans, not all showed they were willing to take her hand.

In Georgia, she’ll be joined Friday by Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights icon and veteran Atlanta congressman.

White House officials say they will not allow emails between President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to be made public as part of the court-ordered release of all her emails when she was secretary. “We need to see action”, he added.

With no new information to reveal, the Republicans on the committee seemed bent on provoking a few sort of outburst or admission of guilt from Clinton, who is now the leading contender for the Democratic nomination for president.

But as they continued to chant and sing over Clinton, she was forced to carry on with her speech despite it being inaudible for a period of time. “The murder of nine innocents at Bible study has renewed the call to do something about the senseless gun violence that stalks our country”, she said.

“We have to take on the continuing abuses where oppression is more prevalent than opportunity”, Clinton said.

Yet Clinton’s place in preference polls has improved since the first Democratic primary debate, in which her chief primary rival, Vermont independent Sen.

The changes would build on a 2010 act of Congress that narrowed the disparity between crack crimes – which are concentrated among minorities – and powder crimes, which are more likely to involve white people.

In the area of cocaine-offense sentencing, Clinton advocated that equal amounts of crack and powder cocaine carry equal sentences, saying she wanted the change to be retroactive.

Johnetta Elzie, a prominent activist, tweeted Friday that Clinton was taking “baby steps towards addressing racial justice in a real way”, and that her efforts fell short of Sanders.

In all, the White House is attempting to block the release of a small number of emails – not because of their content, but due to the principle that a president’s communications should be kept confidential.

“I believe in second chances”, Clinton said in South Carolina.

It was not immediately clear whether U.S. District Judge Emmett Sullivan would agree with the US executive branch that Clinton’s emails with Obama did not have to be released under his order.

On Saturday, Hillary Clinton will be speaking at the worldwide Longshoreman Association downtown.

The moment was emblematic of how criminal justice has emerged as a pivotal issue in the 2016 presidential race.

Former presidents of both parties have done the same, often insisting that to do otherwise would open the president’s most sensitive deliberations to congressional and public inspection.