Judge Rules Education Department's Partisan Emails Unconstitutional
TL;DR
A federal court ordered the Education Department to stop using employee email messages that contained partisan political language blaming Democrats for a government shutdown, citing First Amendment violations and emphasizing that civil servants cannot be used as political spokespeople.
Topics:nationlaw#education-department#federal-court#first-amendment#government-emails#law#partisan-messaging
- Judge orders Education Department to halt ‘partisan’ employee email messages Politico
- Editing federal employees’ emails to blame Democrats for shutdown violated their First Amendment rights, judge says CNN
- Education Department's out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown are unconstitutional, judge rules NBC News
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- US judge bars Education Department emails blaming shutdown on Democrats Reuters
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