A federal judge has ordered the US State Department to produce a schedule for the release of Hillary Clinton’s emails from her time as secretary of state, a legal move that could complicate her presidential campaign.
A lawyer in the case, Jeffrey Light, said that US district judge Rudolph Contreras ordered the State Department to come up with a timetable by next week for the rolling release of the 55,000 pages of emails.
The judge also told the State Department to present a schedule by next week for releasing 300 Clinton emails related to US operations in Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans, including the US ambassador, were killed in a 2012 attack.
Mrs Clinton has been criticised for storing and sending emails related to her official duties via a private server based in her house in New York state. She has turned over the emails to the State Department.