The State Department has been warned: May 19 is an important date.
U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras issued an important order Tuesday in a suit filed in January by Vice News reporter Jason Leopold: The State Department must give a date within three weeks that marks when it will release tens of thousands of work-related emails sent or received by Hillary Clinton on her personal account during her time as secretary of state.
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“At or before the May 19 status hearing, Defendant shall provide a proposed schedule of production for Secretary Clinton’s e-mails,” Contreras wrote. The written order formalizes a verbal order he gave earlier this month at a hearing.
The State Department has said it will use Freedom of Information Act requests to ready roughly 55,000 pages of emails for release — but it has neglected to say when that release will come. Now, in addition to the suit by Leopold — which seeks all of Clinton’s emails during her four years as secretary of state, as well as many of her staffers’ — the agency will have to follow through on various FOIA lawsuits.
Contreras also ordered both sides of the Leopold lawsuit to speak with one another again in order to “narrow” the request.
(h/t Politico)
