Posted on 07/18/2025 9:34:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
A Biden-appointed judge dismissed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Thursday brought by FBI agents who worked on Jan. 6 investigations.
Agents’ concerns that the Department of Justice (DOJ) would retaliate and publicly disclose a list of those who worked on Jan. 6 cases are “too speculative,” Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee, wrote in her 32-page opinion finding the agents lack standing to sue.
“They do not plausibly allege that Defendants are about to engage in any of the conduct agents are worried about,” she wrote.
Agents sued early in February after leadership instructed them to complete a survey about their work on Jan. 6 investigations, fearing the release of their information to the public would place them at risk. While Cobb said she “understands why Plaintiffs want certain assurances from the government,” she wrote that there is nothing in the complaint or the record that supports their argument.
“There is nothing in Plaintiffs’ amended complaint or the record before the Court—taken separately or considered together—from which the Court can reasonably conclude that Defendants have any plan to release Plaintiffs’ identities to the public,” she wrote.
The judge also dismissed First Amendment claims about “hypothetical, future terminations and unspecified ‘adverse actions’ that may never occur.”
“Plaintiffs argue in their briefs that Defendants’ ongoing internal review of FBI agents is itself an adverse action that violates the First Amendment,” she wrote. “But those allegations are conspicuously absent from the amended complaint—the document in which Plaintiffs must make the contours of their claims clear.”
Mark Zaid, a lawyer who represented the agents, wrote on X that the “reality is we won.”
“I have little doubt that had we not intervened back in Feb names of all J6 FBI personnel were going to be released,” Zaid wrote. “We stopped that cold. Five months later circumstances are different. But if threat arises again, we will sue.”
This particular Democrat judge seems sane at least. I know it’s a low bar...
When has absence of evidence ever stopped the plaintiff’s lawyers from filing lawsuits?
What’s amazing is that they admit they used a case without any evidence to buy time. They should be charged with filing a frivolous lawsuit.
Their lawsuit was based on pure speculation that something bad MIGHT happen to the plaintiffs at some time in an undefined future..............
So many things have spun so wildly out of control since the turn of the century. It’s disheartening.
The case was dismissed, but “we won”.
Note that written differently, if it was a different, unrelated case, the headline would more often be “thrown out of court”. Most plaintiffs would not consider that “a win”.
If you’ve ever been unclear on the notion of “spin”, this example should chill that right out.
Why are cases without evidence even accepted by a judge?
Well ‘someone’ beat that j6 gulag prisoner in his cell and busted his eye socket, and he’s probably crapping his pants right now .
Good.
FBI, not guards, ok, my bad, still pissed the guard got away with busting that guys eye socket.
If that was my lawyer I’d put out a hit..................
We don’t need their names released to the public. We just need these folks to be released from employment with the Federal Government.
If charges are filed then their names become public.
Sounds to me they are admitting guilt even before the fact..............
> This particular Democrat judge seems sane at least. <
I wonder when Rep. Jeffries will start impeachment proceedings against her.
I agree completely Fire them
Sh**ing FBI agents lined up outside building restrooms. They should have remembered the old military training slogan: Obeying an illegal order is the same as issuing an illegal order.
One of the things about bullies, thugs and crooks that I have noticed is that they truly believe that everybody else thinks and acts like they do. So they wind up saying that other people are planning to do to them what they would do to those people if they had half a chance.
“Do unto others BEFORE THEY CAN DO UNTO YOU!” mentality..............
The J6 FBI agents should be ruthlessly hunted down, put in leg irons, perp walked and arrested for kidnapping J6 protesters. They should be denied bail and languish in the dirty DC gulag hell hole just like the J6 freedom fighters they persecuted. Get them all.
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