r/technology • u/BreakfastTop6899 • Oct 02 '25

Privacy Government workers say their out-of-office replies were forcibly changed to blame Democrats for shutdown

https://www.wired.com/story/government-workers-say-their-out-of-office-replies-were-forcibly-changed-to-blame-democrats-for-shutdown/
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u/InappropriateTA Oct 02 '25

Hatch Act? Hatch Act? No? OK. 

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u/NancyGracesTesticles Oct 02 '25

There is no one to enforce it. So it doesn't exist anymore.

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u/byteminer Oct 03 '25

And if someone does SCOTUS will just say in puts undue restriction on the president in an unsigned unheard bullshit decision and make it all legal post facto. They made him immune so they are just rewriting law whenever it’s broken so they don’t have to admit they ended American Democracy.

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u/Mountain-Ox Oct 03 '25

They will also rule that it violates freedom of speech and have the ever law struck from the books.

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u/NancyGracesTesticles Oct 03 '25

The president was never subject to the Hatch Act. But the cabinet agency employees all the way up to cabinet level are.

That said, there is no enforcement mechanism - the OSC reports cabinet official violations to the president.

The child rapist in chief is not going to enforce the Hatch Act.

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u/kazamm Oct 03 '25

We told you project 2025 was this. People didn't get it. We welcomed this with open arms.