By Josh Gerstein
02/09/16 03:29 PM EST
Updated 02/09/16 05:12 PM EST
A federal judge said Tuesday he was disturbed by the State Department’s failure to meet a deadline he ordered to finish the public release of 54,000 pages of email messages Hillary Clinton sent or received during her four years as secretary of state.
“The government has put me between a rock and a hard place….which is a position I don’t like to be in,” U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras said during a half-hour-long hearing Tuesday.