Hillary Clinton has requested more time to answer a set of 25 written questions about her private email server after a federal judge ordered her to have them completed by the end of the month.
The questionnaire, which she was ordered to complete through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by conservative-leaning Judicial Watch, was designed to clear up inconsistencies in her past statements to the FBI and to Congress about her personal email network. Her answers will be considered sworn testimony.
But Clinton’s legal team asked Judicial Watch last week for a two-week extension to address the inquiries, citing “the unavailability of counsel and the press of campaign business, among other reasons,” the group announced Wednesday.
Clinton had been facing a Sept. 29 deadline; she must now submit her responses by Oct. 13.
The extension means voters will receive what could be the fullest explanation of Clinton’s private email use just three weeks before the presidential election.
The Democratic nominee must clarify the reasons why she deleted emails and how she decided to set up a server in her basement, among other issues.
Her request for more time came shortly before she spent several days off the campaign trail due to a bout of pneumonia, which contributed to her collapse at a Sept. 11 memorial ceremony Sunday.
