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Officials at President Donald Trump’s Department of Education violated the First Amendment rights of furloughed federal workers by “commandeering” their email accounts to “broadcast partisan messages,” according to a federal judge.

The ruling follows a lawsuit accusing the agency of illegally taking control of employees’ emails to send

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