A federal judge on Thursday agreed to a request by the Trump administration to dismiss a suit that sought to block the release of the names of thousands of FBI agents who worked on Jan. 6 cases.

U.S. District Court Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee, expressed sympathy for agents who went to court seeking limitations on the Trump administration after the Justice Department demanded a list of all who had done investigative work on the cases of rioters.

“Plaintiffs filed these cases in a whirlwind of chaos and fear,”........

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