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AP Photo DNC asks court for more time to deal with Sanders lawsuit

The Democratic National Committee on Thursday filed a consent motion with a U.S. district court to defer responding to Bernie Sanders' lawsuit, which alleges that the organization unfairly pulled the campaign’s access to voter file data.

The DNC is asking the court to give the committee until April 29 to respond to the suit. “Good cause exists for granting the motion,” attorneys representing the DNC wrote to the D.C. District Court.

The Sanders campaign and DNC “have been and continue to be engaged in cooperative discussions in their efforts to resolve the pending litigation,” they continued. “At this juncture, the parties are sufficiently far along in those negotiations such that the most prudent and useful course of action would be to extend Defendant’s time to answer or respond, given that no other motions are pending and doing so will serve to conserve the resources of both the Court and the parties.”

The Sanders campaign formally served the DNC with the suit last month. The allegations from the suit, initially filed in December, stem from a controversy late last year in which Sanders staffers improperly accessed information from Hillary Clinton's data file after a firewall between the campaigns' information was inadvertently dropped.