STEVENS, Circuit Judge. The question presented is whether a public employee may be discharged for failing to support the partisan political activities of his immediate superior. Defendant contends as a matter of fact that plaintiffs were not discharged for any such reason and as a matter of law that such a reason is sufficient until political tradition — -at least the patronage aspects of the “spoils” system — is superseded…
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