A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to keep confidential a list of F.B.I. agents and employees who worked on investigations into rioters from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
The Trump administration had consented to the text of the temporary restraining order after negotiations with lawyers for two groups of anonymous F.B.I. agents and employees who had filed lawsuits earlier this week to block any release of the identities.
The dispute grew out of a demand by Emil Bove, a former criminal defense lawyer for President Trump who is now the acting deputy attorney general, that the bureau compile and turn over a comprehensive list of the law enforcement officials.
Mr. Bove has been helping to oversee the Trump administration scourging of the nation’s federal law enforcement apparatus, an effort that has included firing or sidelining top career employees across the Justice Department and the F.B.I., and firing prosecutors who participated in the criminal cases against Mr. Trump or against the Jan. 6 rioters.
At a hearing on Thursday before Judge Jia M. Cobb, a Justice Department attorney said the department leadership had no intention of making the list public. He said it was instead commissioned for an internal review.
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