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The State Department filed its own response Monday, largely backing Hillary Clinton's resistance to additional questioning. | Getty Clinton fights demand for more information on emails

Lawyers for Hillary Clinton are opposing a conservative group's demand that she provide more details about the creation of the private server that hosted her email account while she was secretary of state.

Last month, Clinton answered written questions that a federal judge authorized Judicial Watch to ask in connection with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit related to her email set-up. She said she had no recollection that anyone ever suggested to her that the arrangement be at odds with FOIA or federal recordkeeping laws.

On Nov. 3, five days before the presidential election, Judicial Watch complained to U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan that Clinton did not provide full answers to all the questions the group asked.

Clinton's attorneys responded in a court filing Monday that two of the three questions went beyond the scope of what Sullivan authorized Judicial Watch to inquire about. One question asked about the reasons for creating the email server, which was set up to serve former President Bill Clinton years before his wife took office in 2009. Another asked about responses to a memo warning against the use of unclassified devices in the secretary of state's suite.

The third question at issue asked about Clinton's estimate that 90 percent to 95 percent of her work-related emails were captured in State Department systems. Clinton's attorneys said that number came from conversations with her lawyers that were protected by attorney-client privilege. In several instances, however, Clinton's team pointed to information in FBI interviews or other public records that provide at least partial answers to the queries.

The State Department filed its own response Monday, largely backing Clinton's resistance to additional questioning.