--- description: A judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. State Department to determine whether it has found any new emails between Hillary Clinton and the White House title: Judge Orders State Department To Look For New Clinton Emails image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa6f18c2f1c2ab53/6988a3bbcf40a8fe14c44983/hillary-clinton-emails-release-judge.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [2016 Election](/tag/2016-election/) ## 2016 Election Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Judge Orders State Department To Look For New Hillary Clinton Emails by [Reuters](/author/reuters/) ## Reuters Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 25, 2016 10:52 PM CUT  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign event in Reno, Nevada on August 25, 2016\. He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party, she said at the event about her opponent Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. / AFP / JOSH EDELSON (Photo credit should read JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images) Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign event in Reno, Nevada on August 25, 2016\. He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party, she said at the event about her opponent Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. / AFP / JOSH EDELSON (Photo credit should read JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images)JOSH EDELSON—AFP/Getty Images by [Reuters](/author/reuters/) ## Reuters Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 25, 2016 10:52 PM CUT (Reuters) — A judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. State Department to determine whether it has found any new emails between Hillary Clinton and the White House from the week after the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, and to release any such documents by Sept. 13. Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, has been criticized for using a private email address and server while she was U.S. Secretary of State from 2009-13\. The State Department has already released thousands of her emails. (Reporting by Emily Stephenson) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4466900/hillary-clinton-emails-judge/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4466900/hillary-clinton-emails-judge/"},"headline":"Judge Orders State Department To Look For New Hillary Clinton Emails","datePublished":"2016-08-25T22:52:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:13:04.258Z","description":"The judge also ordered the documents to be released by Sept. 13","url":"https://time.com/4466900/hillary-clinton-emails-judge/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa6f18c2f1c2ab53/6988a3bbcf40a8fe14c44983/hillary-clinton-emails-release-judge.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Reuters","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/reuters/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa6f18c2f1c2ab53/6988a3bbcf40a8fe14c44983/hillary-clinton-emails-release-judge.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-VOTE-DEMOCRATS-CLINTON","caption":"US-VOTE-DEMOCRATS-CLINTON","creditText":"JOSH EDELSON—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4466900/hillary-clinton-emails-judge/","name":"Judge Orders State Department To Look For New Hillary Clinton Emails"}}]}] ```