silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoGovernment Workers Cannot Be Fired for Their Political Views | The First Amendment forbids widespread loyalty purges.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1453arrow-down14
arrow-up1449arrow-down1external-linkGovernment Workers Cannot Be Fired for Their Political Views | The First Amendment forbids widespread loyalty purges.www.theatlantic.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square34fedilink
minus-squareempireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·2 months agoToo bad the people supposed to be enforcing that part of the Constitution are the ones doing the firing right now.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·2 months agoIt’s not yet clear that the courts will go along with it.
minus-squaresolsangraal@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·2 months agolaws and court orders are literally meaningless if no one enforces it
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoThe other civil servants around them are likely to welcome back colleagues.
Too bad the people supposed to be enforcing that part of the Constitution are the ones doing the firing right now.
It’s not yet clear that the courts will go along with it.
laws and court orders are literally meaningless if no one enforces it
The other civil servants around them are likely to welcome back colleagues.