The political corruption that saturated the century between 1850 and 1950 has receded and a reform that was prompted by it—the provision in Philadelphia’s Home Rule Charter barring police officers from making political contributions—now violates the constitutional right to free speech, the police union’s lawyer told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Tuesday morning.
“Since 1950, we’re not in the same world,” Thomas Jennings of Jennings Sigmond told the three-judge panel of the appeals court. The police union is appealing a decision from the district court that had sided with the city on summary judgment.
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