Legal Opinion
United States v. National Treasury Employees Union
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 22, 1995No. 93-1170PublishedCited by 633 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
In 1989 Congress enacted a law that broadly prohibits federal employees from accepting any compensation for making speeches or writing articles. The prohibition applies even when neither the subject of the speech or article nor the person or group paying for it has any connection with the employee’s official duties. We must decide whether that statutory prohibition comports with the Constitution’s command that “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech.” We hold that it does not.
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