Court rules Trump administration violated First Amendment with out-of-office messages

Furloughed Employees Sue Administration For Adding Partisan Wording To Their Out-Of-Office Messages

Here comes more pathetic, childish bullshit from an administration that has made petty bullshit its brand. The just completed government shutdown caused problems everywhere. The Trump administration knew its refusal to compromise on the budget bill was going to hurt it, so it did everything it could to reshape the narrative, even as it somehow…

Education Department must remove 'partisan' language from shutdown emails: Judge

A federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration over its inclusion of “partisan” language in Education Department employees’ automated emails during the government shutdown, ordering the agency to immediately halt the practice. The ruling was in response to a lawsuit brought by the American Federation of Government Employees last month, which claimed the administration violated furloughed employees’ First Amendment rights by changing …

Judge says Education Dept. partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment rights of Education Department employees when it replaced their personalized out-of-office e-mail notifications with partisan language blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.“When government employees enter public service, they do not sign away their First Amendment rights,” U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper wrote in his decision on Friday, “and they cer…

Court rules Trump administration violated First Amendment with out-of-office messages

Emails the Trump administration auto-sent violated First Amendment rights, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled Friday.

Judge Prohibits Education Department From Using Partisan Out-of-Office Emails for Employees

A federal judge said on Nov. 7 that the Department of Education violated the First Amendment by using employee email accounts to send out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown. “When government employees enter public service, they do not sign away their First Amendment rights, and they certainly do not sign up to be a billboard for any given administration’s partisan views,” U.S. District Judge Christopher Coop…

Federal court backs union on feds' partisan emails

(The Center Square) - A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration violated employees’ First Amendment rights by allegedly hijacking their email accounts to send automated partisan messages blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.