Hillary Clinton’s attorney fought Monday to prevent the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee from giving sworn testimony as part of a lawsuit concerning her use of a private email system while serving as secretary of state.

The courtroom drama will linger, however, as Clinton readies for the Democratic convention next week and Republican lawmakers push for more investigations into the email system.

U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said Monday in his Washington courtroom that he will decide later whether Clinton must be deposed as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the conservative legal watchdog group Judicial Watch.

Michael Bekesha , the group’s lawyer, told Sullivan that the organization only needed three hours to ask Clinton questions about her motivation for using the private email system throughout her tenure at the State Department — and whether it was done to prevent records from becoming public under FOIA.

“We’re not on a witch hunt here,” Bekesha said. The group’s lawsuit seeks email records from that system and focuses on the public records implications of Clinton and a top aide, Huma

Abedin’s, use of the private email system.