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

Judge Christopher Cooper ruled the Education Department unlawfully altered furloughed workers' emails to include partisan blame, violating First Amendment rights of over 2,000 union members.

  • 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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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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