Judge Rejects Ex-FBI Agent's Claim He Was Illegally Fired for Disparaging Trump in Texts
Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Strzok failed to prove his 2018 firing violated First Amendment rights despite a prior $1.2 million DOJ settlement for privacy violations.
- A federal judge has dismissed Peter Strzok's claims that his firing from the FBI was illegal due to disparaging text messages about President Donald Trump.
- U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that the FBI's need to avoid bias in investigations was more important than Strzok's free speech rights.
- The Justice Department stated that Strzok was fired for misconduct involving politically charged messages on his FBI phone.
- Strzok, who denies that his opinions affected his work, had previously settled claims regarding leaked texts meant to suggest anti-Trump bias at the FBI.
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Judge Throws Out Lawsuit From Trump Nemesis FBI Agent Peter Strzok, Who Claims His Firing Violated His First Amendment Rights
Strzok says the FBI’s decision to fire him for calling Trump ‘loser’ on what he thought was a private text was done through ‘unrelenting pressure’ from the President.
Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok Loses First Amendment Case in Which He Claimed He Was Illegally Fired - The Virginia Star
by Misty Severi A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok’s long-running lawsuit in which he claimed he was illegally fired and that the Justice Department and FBI violated his free speech and privacy rights. The FBI terminated Strzok’s employment in 2018 after a review of thousands of his texts with bureau lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was having an affair, showed a bias against then-GOP presidential nomine…
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