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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.

[–] 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.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This admin is so embarrassing

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Embarrassing in the sense of increased morbidity and mortality, not just for US citizens, mind you.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 months ago

Yes, but also embarrassing in the most fundamental "Jesus Christ, you're all supposed to be adults, stop acting like high schoolers" kinda way.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

"... enacted by the sitting government at the time of the shutdown in 2025 ..."

There, completely unbiased.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I think it might be doing more harm than good at this point. It is so transparent that I think even Americans can smell that it's bullshit.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No. It's still doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing: reinforcing political tribalism and radicalizing the far right against "the other side".

Trump can't run for office again, he doesn't need the votes or approval. What he needs is control, and having a rabid base of armed and angry supporters taking his word as gospel is a means to that end.

And unfortunately, it works. His dissenters in the Republican party are afraid to speak out against him.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

/straightens deck chairs on the Titanic

That's much better.

[–] BlackVenom@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

So the USDAs website... When?