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 ...

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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Furloughed federal workers pushed to make partisan out-of-office replies: Sources

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) encouraged federal employees across the government -- including at the Departments of Labor, Justice and Education -- to create out-of-office email messages ...