Whistleblower Act

Violations of Free Speech at EPA

EPA employees were within their rights with the dissent letter they wrote.

I know it must be a shock to the Trump Administration that even lowly civil servants —  I’m sure they would put the emphasis on “servants” — have rights that Important People like them are obliged to respect.  But we still live in a democracy, and as the Supreme Court once said, government employees don’t leave their First Amendment rights at the door.

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