Is It Legal For Government Workers To Get Cancelled Over Charlie Kirk Commentary?!?

As always, it depends . . . 

The paper is kinda late to this issue and most of the local angle concerns small towns. 

However . . . 

Here's the overview as cancellations prove a lot more "captivating" than some really good questions about the deets of the assassination and the ongoing investigation. 

Check-it . . .  

The answer to the question of what is legal and what is not, what violates an individual’s First Amendment protections can be murky depending on specific circumstances — who said or wrote what and under what circumstances. But more often, attorneys said, the case law is well established. They insist that numerous situations that are now unfolding could end up in court, perhaps even the U.S. Supreme Court.

“That, I think, is what is concerning, is that there is clearly established law,” said Max Kautsch, a First Amendment attorney in Lawrence, who adjunct professor at the University of Kansas School of Law. “It seems that other factors are controlling decision making rather than the rule of law.

“Theoretically, if there is freedom of speech, then employees at public agencies ought to be able to say what they want, on their own time, and not be penalized for that,” he said.

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Kansas and Missouri teachers punished for Charlie Kirk comments. Was it legal?