Trump Seeks to Revive Suit Accusing Clinton of Russia Conspiracy

President Donald Trump’s lawyers appeared before an appeals court in Alabama to try to revive a civil suit accusing Hillary Clinton of leading a conspiracy to bog down his 2016 presidential campaign with bogus allegations tying him to Russia.

The packed hearing Tuesday at the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Birmingham came more than three years after the suit was dismissed by a judge in Florida who called the case an improper political “manifesto.”

The suit alleged that Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and an array of political operatives violated the federal racketeering law by conspiring to ...