The next term, in United States v. National Treasury Employees Union, a 6–3 Court held unconstitutional Section 501(b) of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 (), which barred all federal employees from accepting compensation for making speeches or writing for publication.United States v. National Treasury Employees Union, . Stevens, writing for the majority, distinguished the case from Waters and its predecessors by noting that it involved a broadly applied instance of prior restraint instead of a disciplinary action against a single employee for actual speech.Treasury Employees, 513 U.S. at 466–67, Stevens, J. Following Waters he found the government's predictions of disruption if the statute were overturned unwarranted.Treasury Employees, 513 U.S. at 473–76.
