How free speech can get you fired

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Kazuaki Shimazaki II

Not so much in a job.

So you're arguing that jobs should be directly protected by the Constitution? Should Federal law cover every possible contingency? Could it? As has been said repeatedly, the Constitution is a guidebook for the Government, and the Bill of Rights guarantees protection from abuses by the Government, nothing more. Further protections are given in other laws. If the man feels his rights have been violated he can take it to court, and possibly win. That is his guaranteed protection under the law.

Going by its letter, it doesn't even cover the whole government, only Congress (its legislature).

That's because only Congress can make laws.

Nevertheless, I don't think anyone would argue that rights weren't trampled if some branch of the Executive enacted policies that would have a depressing effect on freedom of speech.

That would depend on where and why such policies were enacted. Free speech doesn't include revealing government secrets, and people have gone to prison for that. Even so, they got their day in court, and if they didn't the people tried to do something about it. Not always successfully, but that's a problem we'll always face.