"partisan political rhetoric."
"The Trump-Vance administration is losing the blame game for the shutdown, so they're using every tactic to try to fool the American people, including taking advantage of furloughed civil servants,"
"Even for an administration that has repeatedly demonstrated a complete lack of respect for the Constitution and rule of law, this is beyond outrageous. The court must act immediately to stop this flagrant unlawfulness."
The American Federation of Government Employees filed suit against the Trump administration over automated out-of-office email responses placed on many furloughed employees' accounts during the government shutdown. The messages were applied without employee consent and attributed blame to Senate Democrats for the shutdown. The union will be represented by Democracy Forward and Public Citizen Litigation Group. The complaint contends the messages constitute partisan political rhetoric and violate the Hatch Act's nonpartisanship requirement for nonappointed government staff. The complaint also alleges violations of individual employees' First Amendment rights and seeks immediate court action to halt the practice.
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