A federal judge sided on Friday with a union against the Trump administration in a lawsuit claiming partisan messages on out-of-office emails were unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said the messages blaming Democrats for the government shutdown on the outgoing messages from the Department of Education violated the workers' free speech rights.

'Political officials are free to blame whomever they wish for the shutdown, but they cannot use rank-and-file civil servants as their unwilling spokespeople. The First Amendment stands in their way.'

The American Federation of Government Employees said in its lawsuit that the email messages forced employees to "involuntarily parrot the Trump administration's talking points with emails sent out in their names."

Cooper agree

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