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Graham Piro
FIRE
Violating the First Amendment will cost you. Universities and other public institutions are learning this lesson the hard way as the dust settles on a series of lawsuits brought by university faculty and staff who were punished for their comments about Charlie Kirk’s murder last September.
In the aftermath of the assassination, the country saw a wave of retaliatory censorship. Hundreds of employees at both private and public institutions were disciplined or fired for comments that ranged from benign reposts of Kirk’s own comments to celebratory claims that he deserved to be killed. But in almost every instance, their speech was protected — and lawsuits ensued.
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