silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days 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 · 6 days agomessage-square34fedilink
minus-squareempireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·6 days 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-down1·6 days agoIt’s not yet clear that the courts will go along with it.
minus-squaresolsangraal@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·6 days agolaws and court orders are literally meaningless if no one enforces it
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 days 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.