AFP
The Democratic Party in the US is suing Russia, the Trump campaign and Wikileaks for conspiring to disrupt the 2016 presidential election.
Documents filed in court allege that the campaign "gleefully accepted Russia's help" to win the election.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly denied colluding with Russia and called the allegations a "witch hunt".
US intelligence agencies previously concluded Moscow had tried to sway the election in Mr Trump's favour.
Several investigations are under way.
In May 2016 the first reports emerged of hackers targeting the Democratic Party. Over the next two months, the reports suggested US intelligence agencies had traced the breaches back to Russian hackers.
In July, on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, Wikileaks published 20,000 internal emails stolen by the hackers.
US intelligence officials said they believed with "high confidence" that Russia had been behind the operation but the Trump campaign publicly refused to accept the findings.
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