Trump bans EPA employees from giving social media updates
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#21984 here we go
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#3It's downright impressive how comic-book-evil this administration is. Next up, the white house will presumably be moved to a volcano base with overly large ventilation shafts.
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#5I was curious if a case could be made for First Amendment rights, but I just re-read it...
"Congress shall make no law regarding..."
I guess Executive Orders can bypass all of that.
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#6I am looking for reasonable explanations for this, but keep coming up blank. I grew up in a country where this sort of censorship and fact hiding was the norm, and hated it.
I now live in a country that is much freer, but for the first time since 1938, no longer has an active US ambassador, with no replacement in sight, since President Trump fired all US ambassadors to foreign countries on the afternoon of his inauguration... [0]
[0] - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trum...
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#7I was curious if a case could be made for First Amendment rights, but I just re-read it... "Congress shall make no law regarding..." I guess Executive Orders can bypass all of that.
Presedential power has grown a LOT in the past 50 years. I still think we have a strong enough constitution to prevent a Hitler, but not as sure as I would have been in the previous generation.
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#8I was curious if a case could be made for First Amendment rights, but I just re-read it... "Congress shall make no law regarding..." I guess Executive Orders can bypass all of that.
The president can't issue unconstitutional executive orders but has great powers over the executive branch which this falls under.
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#9Also happening with the National Parks Service [0].
[0] http://gizmodo.com/national-park-service-banned-from-tweetin...
Re: Trump bans EPA employees from giving social media updates
#10I was curious if a case could be made for First Amendment rights, but I just re-read it... "Congress shall make no law regarding..." I guess Executive Orders can bypass all of that.
The president can't issue unconstitutional executive orders but has great powers over the executive branch which this falls under.
Right. He can't stop you from saying what you want to say. He can stop you from saying what you want to say on an official Federal government platform.
For that matter, many employers can do that. I can say whatever I please, but not with my company name on it.