A federal judge has thrown out former longtime FBI agent Peter Strzok's claims that his firing by the agency over anti-Donald Trump texts with ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page violated his constitutional rights, instead crediting the testimony of bureau officials that said "the situation was unprecedented."

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, a Barack Obama appointee, concluded Tuesday that Strzok's First Amendment "interest in expressing his opinions about political candidates on his FBI phone" was "outweighed by the FBI's interest in avoiding the appearance of bias in its ongoing investigations of those very people[.]"

Strzok and Page, remembered for their involvement in both the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server and in former special counsel Robert Mueller's probe o

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