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3. If employees were instructed that they are not permitted, as individuals, to communicate with Congress, it would violate

Reply to malthaussen (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 21, 2025, 07:48 AM

Feb 2025

1st Amendment rights "...to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

However, if the instruction was to establish, or remind employees, that responses to Congressional inquiries are to be handled exclusively by the Department's Office of Legislative Affairs, then it is neither unconstitutional nor unusual. Context matters, and there is insufficient information in the Reuters article to determine the scope of the instruction.

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That's what we call an unlawful order. malthaussen Feb 2025 #2

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