Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who sent anti-Trump texts, loses First Amendment case over his firing [View all]
Source: Politico
09/23/2025 04:33 PM EDT
Former FBI agent Peter Strzok has lost a long-running lawsuit claiming he was illegally fired during Donald Trump’s first term after sending text messages that criticized Trump.
Strzok argued in the lawsuit that his FBI bosses had retaliated against him in order to placate Trump, who was outraged over texts that Strzok exchanged while investigating ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.
In a ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said that, after several years gathering evidence and testimony from those involved in the 2018 decision to terminate the veteran counterintelligence agent, Strzok’s lawyers had failed to show that his dismissal violated his First Amendment rights.
Jackson, an Obama appointee, stressed that she was not ruling on whether Strzok’s firing “was the appropriate sanction” for his conduct, only that the voluminous evidence assembled over years of litigation — including a deposition of Trump himself — had not proven Strzok’s rights were violated.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/23/peter-strzok-lawsuit-dismissed-00577209
Link to ORDER (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26125644-strzokordexp092325/
Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26125644/strzokordexp092325.pdf
He settled 2 other cases however.
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