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

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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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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.