Government Employees May Generally Be Disciplined for Sufficiently Controversial Public Political Speech

From Judge Kevin Newsom's opinion today in Labriola v. Miami-Dade County, joined by Judges Robin Rosenbaum and Stanley Marcus: John Labriola was a media aide for the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners. In his own name and on his own time, Labriola wrote an opinion piece that criticized the…