Ryan Lucas

And then more broadly, the past 14 months have just been an incredibly chaotic time at the Justice Department.

Career prosecutors and FBI officials have been fired.

Entire sections of the department have been gutted.

And the credibility of the department before the courts has suffered as well.

The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.

by three former FBI agents, Michelle Ball, Jamie Garman, and Blair Tolman, who are Bureau veterans with years of experience.

They were fired last year as part of what the lawsuit calls a retribution campaign against

against FBI employees who worked on Trump investigations.

The suit is the latest to be filed by fired FBI agents, but this one could have a broader impact because it is seeking to represent a proposed class of at least 50 FBI employees who have been fired under the Trump administration for what the lawsuit says are similarly improper reasons.

Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.

Court papers identify the defendant as Alexander Heifler.

He's facing one count of unlawful possession of firearms and one count of unlawful making of firearms.

Court papers say Heifler discussed with an undercover law enforcement officer his desire to build firebombs.

The two later put together eight Molotov cocktails.

which Heifler allegedly said would be thrown into a certain individual's home.

Court papers don't name the individual, but a law enforcement official confirms to NPR the target of the alleged plot was pro-Palestinian activist Nardine Kaswani.

In a post on X, Kaswani says the FBI has informed her that they had taken action to disrupt a plot against her life.

She also says she won't stop speaking up for the Palestinian people.

Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.

Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores have pleaded not guilty to the charges.