The Justice Department wants to keep Trump from testifying about the firing of an FBI agent and the release of his text messages with an FBI attorney.
between FBI attorney Lisa Page and FBI agent Peter Strzok that exposed their opposition to his candidacy and their personal relationship. The two are suing the Justice Department, not Trump, but say the former president was inappropriately involved in how they were treated.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson allowed for the two-hour deposition earlier this year, saying that Trump’s repeated public statements about the pair justifies further probing of whether he pressured the Justice Department to retaliate against them after the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday denied anfrom the Justice Department to block Berman Jackson’s ruling.
The two judges who voted to deny the Justice Department petition are Democratic appointees; a Republican appointee on the panel said she would have blocked the deposition. Page, who resigned, says the texts were released in violation of her privacy; Strzok says he was fired in retaliation for protected speech.to investigate whether Hillary Clinton broke the law by using a private email server and Russian interference into Trump’s campaign. The exposure of their anti-Trump messages in 2017 fueled Republican allegations that FBI bias drove the Russia probe.
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