“I am writing to inform you that my office has determined that these actions may violate the Hatch Act,” Reid wrote in a letter to Comey.

The Hatch act prohibits government officials from using their positions to influence an election.

“Through your partisan actions, you may have broken the law.”

Comey on Friday told lawmakers that the agency plans to investigation additional emails that appear relevant to the investigation of Clinton’s use of a private sever while secretary of State. The new information the FBI is pursuing comes from an unrelated matter involving communications on a computer belonging to former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), who is now separated from longtime Clinton aide Huma Abdein.

“… In tarring Secretary Clinton with thin innuendo, you overruled longstanding tradition and the explicit guidance of your own Department. You rushed to take this step eleven days before a presidential election, despite the fact that for all you know, the information you possess could be entirely duplicative of the information you already examined which exonerated Secretary Clinton,” Reid continued.