A group of eight federal inspectors general has sued the Trump administration after they were ousted from their jobs last month.

The IGs claim that their firings - which came in the form of a two-sentence email, were illegal because they violated a federal law requiring the White House to inform Congress with 30 days' notice, and provide "substantive rationale" for the firings, according to their 32-page  complaint filed on Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia - where we're guessing they'll find a sympathetic judge.

The plaintiffs are eight of the 17 Senate-confirmed inspectors general who were fired just four days into President Donald Trump's second term in what the White House cited as "changing priorities." They are seeking their jobs back at the departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, Education, Agriculture, Labor and State, and the Small Business Administration.

"IGs must be watchdogs, not lapdogs," reads the complaint, which names the Trump-appointed leaders or interim acting heads of each agency as defendants, according to the Washington Post.