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(160,900 posts) Wed Sep 24, 2025, 04:32 AM Wednesday

Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who sent anti-Trump texts, loses First Amendment case over his firing

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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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143247783
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Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who sent anti-Trump texts, loses First Amendment case over his firing (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Wednesday OP

Hard to see that conclusion. sinkingfeeling Wednesday #1

Impossible to see that conclusion. Irish_Dem Wednesday #3

On the contrary FBaggins Wednesday #4

Jobs in law enforcement have specific rules. yardwork Wednesday #5

At least he doesn't walk away empty-handed True Dough Wednesday #2

Cmon, we all know there's just one amendment... viva la Wednesday #6

sinkingfeeling

(56,450 posts)

1. Hard to see that conclusion.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 04:37 AM

Wednesday

Irish_Dem

(75,514 posts)

3. Impossible to see that conclusion.

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 07:50 AM

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The courts are totally unable to stand up to the Trump Crime Syndicate.

FBaggins

(28,447 posts)

4. On the contrary

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 08:23 AM

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If the firing violated his 1A rights, we can assume that the Biden DOJ would have settled that case too years ago (and/or an Obama judge would not have ruled against him).

yardwork

(68,150 posts)

5. Jobs in law enforcement have specific rules.

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 08:33 AM

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Everybody in LE knows they can be fired for things they say on social media. Texts are not a good idea too because of FOI laws that make them readily available.

I was a state employee for many years. I knew I couldn't say anything political on social media or publicly. I would have been fired.

What's infuriating is that MAGA ignores these rules and say outrageous things all the time. The rules don't apply to them apparently.

True Dough

(24,593 posts)

2. At least he doesn't walk away empty-handed

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 04:47 AM

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There was a settlement in his favor last year. For those who missed it:

The Justice Department has agreed to settle long-running litigation stemming from a decision in 2017 to release to the media text messages between two former FBI employees involved in the probe of alleged ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

In a notice filed with two federal judges in Washington on Tuesday, the Justice Department said it had reached settlements of legal claims that fired FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page brought in 2019 alleging that the disclosure violated their privacy.

The terms of the settlements were not disclosed in the notice, which said Strzok’s claims that his firing violated his First Amendment and due process rights are not resolved by the agreement. That litigation, alleging that the FBI caved to political pressure from Trump to fire Strzok just before he was eligible for full retirement pay, is ongoing.

Until now, the Justice Department has denied liability and fought the claims in both suits. Efforts to resolve the cases through mediation have been underway for at least six months.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/28/feds-settle-page-strzok-00160300

viva la

(4,319 posts)

6. Cmon, we all know there's just one amendment...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 01:38 PM

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The 2nd. The rest are obsolete... until a Democrat is president.

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