Federal workers may not use the word "resistance" or discuss impeachment.

[Grasswire2]

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]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/politics/federal-employees-hatch-act-trump-impeachment.html

WASHINGTON — At workplaces across the United States, it is routine for Americans’ conversations to turn to President Trump — whether his policies are good, whether he should be impeached, what to think about the “resistance.” Some drink from MAGA mugs; others tape cartoons to their cubicle walls portraying Mr. Trump as a Russian quisling.

But roughly two million people who work for the federal government have now been told that it may be illegal for them to participate in such discussions at work — a pronouncement that legal specialists say breaks new ground, and that some criticized as going too far.

Generally, federal employees have been free to express opinions about policies and legislative activity at work as long as they do not advocate voting for or against particular candidates in partisan elections. But in a guidance document distributed on Wednesday, the independent agency that enforces the Hatch Act, a law that bars federal employees from taking part in partisan political campaigns at work or in an official capacity, warned that making or displaying statements at work about impeaching or resisting Mr. Trump is likely to amount to illegal political activity.

[Jarqui]

1. I think there's a pretty good first amendment challenge to be made there nt

[quakerboy]

6. To be made to... Justice Lyin K?

They are here to corrupt the country and steal every scrap of power they can.

[Jarqui]

7. The NRA Klan don't like their freedoms messed with

Shine some bright lights on it and the cockroaches will stay away

[quakerboy]

8. the NRA is owned

And the people in the NRA wouldn't believe their leaders had turned on them until about 50 years after even the worst civics class in a US school started teaching it.

These are the same people that repeatedly sit down, shut up, and pay their dues when the police shoot the wrong color "good guy with a gun", or Bush makes up "free speach zones" or trump is elected. They vote how they are told to vote.

[Iliyah]

2. Has the USA become a

communist country?

[MiniMe]

3. I think Fascist more than Communist

[exboyfil]

4. And those well thumbed copies of Clinton Cash by the FBI Agents?

[saidsimplesimon]

5. Discussing religion or politics

at work is never a good idea. It is an old fashioned work ethic.

[obamanut2012]

9. "It is an old fashioned work ethic." -- wrong

[wishstar]

10. I know some fed employees who can't stand all the pro-Trump talk dominating their offices

You can bet that Trumpers, especially in offices where they predominate in right wing places will be allowed to keep talking about how great they think he is, regardless of Hatch act applying to them and not just those who oppose him. This sounds like a way to silence Trump critics while allowing Trump boosters to carry on as usual.

[Drahthaardogs]

11. Only during an election.

This is a stretch