Judge Tosses Lawsuit By Jan. 6 FBI Agents Who Fear Reprisal by Trump [View all]
Source: Huff Post
Jul 17, 2025, 07:48 PM EDT | Updated 8 hours ago
In a move that many worry will open a door to public reprisal by President Donald Trump and potentially spark violence from his allies, a federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to stop the administration from publicly naming FBI agents who investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“They do not plausibly allege that Defendants are about to engage in any of the conduct agents are worried about,” wrote U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, an appointee of former President Joe Biden.
Emil Bove, Trump’s onetime personal lawyer-turned-deputy attorney general, demanded the FBI turn over names of agents who had investigated Jan. 6 and compiled the list of roughly 5,000 names in February. Bove, whose nomination to a lifetime appointment as a judge on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals advanced on Thursday, claimed this spring that the request aligned with Trump’s executive order vowing to end the political “weaponization” of the federal government, but it was narrowly tailored to those who had investigated Jan. 6 rather than an agency-wide review sussing out any potential ethical or legal violations.
FBI agents swiftly sued in federal court to keep the list from going public, arguing having their names released would endanger them.
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