9 former FBI agents sue, saying they were wrongly fired over Mar-a-Lago case

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Nine former FBI agents have sued the Justice Department, alleging they were fired because of their work on the Mar-a-Lago classified-documents investigation of Donald Trump. Their lawyers argue that the agents' investigative assignments effectively determined their fate.

Nine former FBI agents sued the Justice Department Thursday, alleging they were wrongly fired solely because of their work investigating President Trump in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. Attorneys for the agents write that their “fate was sealed by virtue of simply having worked on an investigation into Trump’s wrongdoing,” noting that Attorney General Todd Blanche…