Judge says Education Dept. partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

A federal judge says the Trump administration "overplayed its hand" by inserting partisan language into workers' ...

Education Department's out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown are unconstitutional, judge rules

The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed after the Trump administration altered employees’ email messages to add partisan ...

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

A federal judge ruled on Friday that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by sending automated emails and messages blaming the government shutdown on Democrats. In the ruling, ...

Trump officials illegally wrote furloughed workers’ out-of-office emails to blame Democrats for the shutdown, judge rules

Officials violated workers’ First Amendment rights by ‘commandeering’ their emails to spread partisan messages ...
Yahoo

Democrats want investigation into shutdown out-of-office email replies

The top Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee is urging Republicans to hold a hearing on whether the Trump administration committed ethics violations at the beginning of the ...
Government Executive

Trump administration ‘co-opted the voices’ of Education employees in shutdown blame game, union lawsuit alleges

The modified out-of-office emails of furloughed Education Department employees blaming Democratic senators for the ongoing shutdown has prompted a lawsuit from the American Federation of Government ...
KTVZ

Out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for shutdown sent on behalf of some federal workers without their consent

(CNN) — Multiple furloughed workers from the Department of Education had out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for the government shutdown automatically sent from their email accounts without their ...
Inside Higher Ed

ED Puts Political Out-of-Office Notes on Staff Emails Without Consent

Wednesday morning, as the government shutdown began, chief officers at the Department of Education distributed a standard out-of-the-office statement to all furloughed staff members and instructed ...
People

Department of Education Employees Say Their Out-of-Office Emails Were Changed to Blame Democrats for Government Shutdown

Several employees claimed they initially made their automatic responses nonpartisan and they were later altered J. David Ake/Getty Multiple Department of Education employees are claiming that their ...