Hillary Clinton faces new scrutiny as ethics complaint challenges her license to practice law in Arkansas

LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now the subject of an ethics complaint targeting her license to practice law in Arkansas.

The filing, submitted this week by the watchdog organization Democracy Restored, asks the Arkansas state bar to review whether Clinton’s role in the 2016 “Russiagate” controversy should affect her standing as an attorney.

Hillary Clinton faces ethics complaint over law license 

The complaint cites the Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct relating to “Dishonesty” and “Prejudice to the Administration of Justice,” and requests a “formal review” of Clinton’s actions during her presidential campaign.

It specifically refers to recently declassified Senate Judiciary Committee documents suggesting Clinton allegedly approved a strategy to circulate damaging and allegedly false information about Donald Trump in order to deflect from scrutiny of her own legal issues.

“Within this release, there is an annex, which suggests that Clinton approved a plan created by one of her advisors to release false information with the purpose ‘to smear’ her political opponent during a presidential campaign and distract from the news surrounding her own legal accusations,” the complaint states.

“This revelation demands an already overdue inquiry into Clinton’s fitness as a member of the Arkansas Bar.”

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The watchdog group argues Clinton’s campaign not only promoted unverified intelligence in 2016 but also that she personally signed off on efforts to amplify the material through the media and federal agencies.

The complaint ties her to opposition research dating back to April 2016, claiming that her team elevated “unverified” and “unvetted” claims to injure Trump during the election.

“If there is one political scandal synonymous with the 2016 election, it is Operation Crossfire Hurricane,” a director at Democracy Restored told Fox News Digital.

“Former Secretary Clinton’s utilization of a bunk dossier by a foreign ex-spy to harm a political opponent violates basic ethical norms as well as the Arkansas bar’s own rules of conduct for attorneys.”

The complaint stresses that no criminal charges have been filed against Clinton, which is the threshold needed for an ethics violation under American Bar Association standards regarding criminal who “commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects,” says Democracy Restored.

“Recently released records have again increased the prospect of a federal investigation into her conduct. Regardless, the legal profession holds its members to higher standards.”

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A spokesperson for the Arkansas Supreme Court’s Office of Professional Conduct confirmed on Wednesday, August 20, that the grievance had been received and “will be processed as all complaints are.”

The filing comes against the backdrop of broader controversies surrounding the Russia probe. Just a day earlier, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revoked the security clearances of 37 current and former intelligence officials, accusing them of politicizing their roles and mishandling intelligence related to the 2016 election.

Among those named in the DNI memo were former Obama-era officials, including ex-DNI James Clapper, whom Gabbard alleged had “compromised normal procedures” in rushing a 2017 assessment of Russia’s election interference.

“Being entrusted with a security clearance is a privilege, not a right,” Gabbard wrote in a post on X. “Those in the Intelligence Community who betray their oath to the Constitution and put their own interests ahead of the interests of the American people have broken the sacred trust they promised to uphold.”