--- title: Judge Asks State Dept. to Look for New Clinton Emails 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 canonical: https://time.com/4466900/hillary-clinton-emails-judge/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-25T22:52:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:13:04.258Z article:section: Politics og:title: Judge Orders State Department To Look For New Clinton Emails og:description: The judge also ordered the documents to be released by Sept. 13 og:url: https://time.com/4466900/hillary-clinton-emails-judge/ og:site_name: TIME og: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 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-VOTE-DEMOCRATS-CLINTON og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Judge Orders State Department To Look For New Clinton Emails twitter:description: The judge also ordered the documents to be released by Sept. 13 twitter: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 ---  # Judge Orders State Department To Look For New Hillary Clinton Emails by [Reuters](https://time.com/author/reuters/) ## Reuters Aug 25, 2016 10:52 PM UTC  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](https://time.com/author/reuters/) ## Reuters Aug 25, 2016 10:52 PM UTC (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. 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