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Federal employees have the same First Amendment rights as everyone else. We're suing on behalf of the nation's largest federal employee union over recent Hatch Act guidance that will stifle the speech of workers who speak up about wrongdoing: americanoversight.org/afge-union-sue…
In November, the Office of Special Counsel issued guidance that restricted government employees from discussing impeachment or using terms like "#resist" at work. Here is our lawsuit on behalf of @AFGENational: documentcloud.org/documents/6267…
@AFGENational The Hatch Act prohibits government employees from engaging in partisan political activities while at work, but it doesn't prohibit them from raising concerns or reporting misconduct. The new guidance could stop employees from raising ethical concerns out of fear of retribution. 
@AFGENational After pushback, the OSC issued a "clarification" that did little to clear things up. Instead, the OSC said that employees can state an "opinion about whether the president should be impeached" but cannot engage in "advocacy for or against the impeachment."
@AFGENational Given the waste, fraud, and abuses of power happening across the administration, government employees should be able speak up about misconduct without such speech being seen as partisan political activity.
@AFGENational We're calling on the agency to rescind the 2018 guidance. The OSC must enforce the Hatch Act without violating the statutory and constitutional rights of federal employees: americanoversight.org/afge-union-sue…
