They want their jobs back. They allege they were fired for investigating President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.
By Catholics for Catholics
A group of former FBI agents who probed President Trump’s alleged subversion of the 2020 presidential election, sued FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday over being fired from the bureau.
Filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., the lawsuit contends that Patel and Bondi violated the former agents’ First and Fifth Amendment rights by firing them.
Wanting their jobs back, the three fired agents allege in a proposed class-action lawsuit that they were unlawfully punished for their roles in an investigation into President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, according to a story by Newsmax.
A personnel cleansing spearheaded by FBI Director Kash Patel over the past year has resulted in dozens of agents being dismissed and a growing number of legal challenges. The agents were removed either for their involvement in Trump-related probes or because they were viewed as insufficiently loyal to the Republican president’s agenda.
The lawsuit brought on behalf of three agents could have more wide-ranging implications. If granted class-action status, it could permit other officers fired since the start of the Trump administration to seek to be placed back on their former jobs.
Fired in October and November, the plaintiffs are Michelle Ball, Jamie Garman and Blaire Toleman. They allege that their terminations were part of a “retribution campaign” tied to their work on the Trump investigation. Each had between eight and 14 years of what the lawsuit calls “exemplary and unblemished” service and expected to remain with the FBI for their careers.
Instead, they say they were abruptly fired without cause or an opportunity to respond.
“Serving the American people as FBI agents was the highest honor of our lives,” they said in a statement. “We took an oath to uphold the Constitution, followed the facts wherever they led and never compromised our integrity. Our removal from federal service — without due process and based on a false perception of political bias — is a profound injustice that raises serious concerns about political interference in federal law enforcement.”
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