US EditionCourt rules Trump administration violated First Amendment with out-of-office messages
Judge Cooper ruled that modifying furloughed employees’ emails to blame Democrats violated First Amendment rights, permanently barring such partisan messages in the Department of Education.
- A federal judge ruled that the Department of Education violated its employees' First Amendment rights by using partisan messaging in out-of-office replies during a government shutdown.
- Judge Christopher R. Cooper stated that changing neutral automatic replies to blame Democrats for the shutdown infringed on employees' rights and undermined nonpartisanship in the federal civil service.
- Two furloughed Education Department employees expressed shock and concern over the alteration of their automatic replies without consent.
- Everett Kelley, national president of the AFGE, called the actions an unprecedented violation of the First Amendment, affirming that no administration is above the law.
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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.
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The BlazeFederal judge orders Department of Education to stop blaming Democrats for shutdown in workers' out-of-office emails
A federal judge sided on Friday with a union against the Trump administration in a lawsuit claiming partisan messages on out-of-office emails were unconstitutional.U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said the messages blaming Democrats for the government shutdown on the outgoing messages from the Department of Education violated the workers' free speech rights.'Political officials are free to blame whomever they wish for the shutdown, but the…
Judge forces Trump admin to remove 'partisan' language from employees' emails
Federal workers recently scored a win in court over President Donald Trump's administration over political language inserted in their email auto-responses without their consent.Politico reported Friday that U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper (an appointee of former President Barack Obama) ruled in favor of a union representing federal workers to strike what he called "partisan messages" from Department of Education (Ed) employees' out-of-off…
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