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Can people who work in the public sector exercise their First Amendment rights at work? Can they lose their job because of what they post on social media?
These and other questions concerning free speech and government workers were explored Feb. 19 at “The First Amendment and Public Sector Employees” during the 2021 American Bar Association Virtual Midyear Meeting.
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Bennett v. Metro: In 2016, a Nashville 9-1-1 operator wrote a public-facing Facebook post following the election win of Donald Trump: “Thank god we have more America loving rednecks. Red spread across all America. Even n [edit YourABA] and latinos voted for trump too!”