The Texas branch of the American Federation of Teachers union sued state education officials in federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the decision to scrutinize and investigate hundreds of educators for their comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in September violated free speech rights.
“Somewhere and somehow, our state’s leaders lost their way. A few well-placed Texas politicians and bureaucrats think it is good for their careers to trample on educators' free speech rights,” Zeph Capo, president of Texas AFT, said in a statement. “They decided scoring a few cheap points was worth the unfair discipline, the doxxing, and the death threats targeted at Texas teachers.”
