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Judge ramps up releases in FOIA suit for Clinton aides' records

A federal judge issued an order Thursday that will sharply ramp up the volume of documents being released in a lawsuit demanding memos and emails from top aides to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras instructed the State Department to move toward production of 2,200 pages of documents per month in the case by next summer, up from a rate of 700 pages per month he set at a hearing earlier this week. The schedule virtually guarantees that a significant volume of records about Clinton, who is the leading Democratic candidate for president, will be emerging through the primary and caucus season and into the heart of the general election next fall.

The order (posted here) came in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by Vice News reporter Jason Leopold. It originally sought virtually all records the State Department possessed pertaining to Clinton's four-year tenure as secretary.

The State Department already agreed to release redacted versions of about 30,000 emails Clinton kept in a private account and returned to her former agency last December at its request. Leopold has now narrowed the request to a variety of topics ranging from WikiLeaks to the Keystone XL pipeline and to emails and other records used by top aides to Clinton.

More details on the dispute are here.