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Judge orders Education Department to remove out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for shutdown (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 7 months ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/usa@midwest.social

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A federal judge told the Department of Education to remove "partisan" language blaming "Democrat Senators" for the government shutdown from furloughed federal workers' out-of-office email messages.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper sided with a federal employees' union that alleged its members' auto-reply emails were changed without their permission to insert the partisan message.

Cooper said the move violated the First Amendment because the government had essentially forced staffers to make a political statement against their will, a concept known as "compelled speech."

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 70 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Only took a month to issue this order, lightning speed for the law.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Letting shitty people do blatantly shitty stuff for months on end deserves punishment, not just telling them to stop.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 11 points 7 months ago

"A Lie will travel around the world, before the Truth has gotten it's shoes on." Which is why education, especially critical thinking skills, is so important for Democracy.