Do government employees enjoy full protection from the First Amendment? It's not a simple yes or no answer. Whether a given utterance is protected depends on a

Do government employees enjoy full protection from the First Amendment? It's not a simple yes or no answer. Whether a given utterance is protected depends on a variety of factors, but probably the most important one for low-ranking TSA employees is that the speech must be of public concern to be protected. I suspect that a front-lines TSA officer who writes a letter to the editor about the TSA would be entitled to First Amendment protection, per Pickering v Board of Education. Here's a bit more info, with summaries of relevant cases: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/publicemployees.htm http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/publice...