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wherearemypaaants t1_irodpgx wrote

Reply to comment by matt_may in NY and NJ officers found on an Oath Keepers list a year back still have their jobs by hau5keeping

Belonging to a hate group isn’t a political affiliation and therefore not a protected class. No one has a constitutional right to be a nazi and work a government job. You can be forced to pick one or the other.

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matt_may t1_irolq68 wrote

Private employers sure but government employees have a lot more rights when it comes to speech/employment. There is a whole body of cases on this dating back to the then Communist Party “hate group”

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rainzer t1_irq5r2d wrote

> but government employees have a lot more rights

Not sure where you came up with this one.

Let me quote Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes for you.

>“The petitioner (a police officer) may have a constitutional right to talk politics, but he has no constitutional right to be a policeman."

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matt_may t1_irqair9 wrote

There is a bunch of case law on this that makes it hard to fire government employees for not on the job political speech. The SCOTUS weighed in 2006, much later than Holmes, in the "Garcetti" Ruling. There’s a 3 part test. None of that exists for private employment

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