Mary Ann Keeffe v. Library of Congress

MIKVA, Circuit Judge:

This appeal from the District Court raises important questions about the constitutionality of governmental limitations on a congressional employee’s off-duty political activities. The Library of Congress seeks to prohibit those activities that it determines will pose a real or apparent conflict of interest with an employee’s official duties. The District Court held that the Library of Congress’ conflict-of-interest regulations, as interpreted and applied to Congressional Research Service (“CRS” or “the Service”) Analysts, were unconstitutionally vague, and therefore…