Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. Pushback today against the Trump administration's

planned retribution at the nation's top law enforcement agency is gathering some steam this afternoon.

Breaking over the last several hours, two lawsuits

against the Trump Justice Department, one a class action lawsuit seeking to block DOJ leadership

from creating lists of agents who worked on the January 6th investigation and the Trump classified

documents case, lists that could then be used for a mass purge of the agency.

The plaintiffs say this, quote, upon returning to the presidency, Mr. Trump has ordered the

DOJ to conduct a review and purge of FBI personnel involved in these investigations and

prosecutions. This directive is unlawful and retaliatory. Plaintiffs assert that the very

act of compiling lists of persons who worked on matters that upset Donald Trump is retaliatory in nature,

intended to intimidate FBI agents and other personnel and to discourage them from reporting

any further malfeasance by Donald

Trump and his agents. The plaintiffs warned that any compiled list could then become a tool for

Trump and his allies. More from the lawsuit, quote, plaintiffs assert that the purpose for this list

is to identify agents to be terminated or to suffer other adverse employment

action. Plaintiffs reasonably fear that all their parts of this list might be published by allies

of President Trump, thus placing themselves and their families in immediate danger of retribution

by the now pardoned and at-large January 6 convicted felons.

Attached to their suit is the questionnaire that was sent out to Bureau staffers, consisting

largely of yes or no questions regarding their involvement in the January 6 cases, with one

question asking for specifics on what each agent did in the largest investigation

in DOJ history, launched in response to what the director of the FBI at the time called an act

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