Free Speech Stops at the (Government) workplace Door?

"....roughly two million people who work for the federal government have now been told that it may be illegal for them to participate in such discussions (for or against Donald Trump) at work — a pronouncement that legal specialists say breaks new ground, and that some criticized as going too far."

                                                                             The NY Times Story

 

UPDATE: WASHINGTON — An independent government agency, facing criticism over a warning to federal employees against taking positions for or against the impeachment of President Trump and using slogans incorporating the word “resist,” revised its guidance on Friday to say that some discussion of both topics remained lawful. NY Times, Saturday 12-1-18
Full story is HERE.