From Judge Glen Davidson's opinion Wednesday in Stokes v. Boyce (N.D. Miss.):
On September 10, 2025, well-known podcaster Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during an event at a university in Utah. That same evening, the Plaintiff, who worked at the University of Mississippi as the Executive Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Development, reposted on her personal social media account a statement regarding Kirk.
For decades, yt supremacist and reimagined Klan members like Kirk have wreaked havoc on our communities, condemning children and the populace at large to mass death for the sake of keeping their automatic guns. They have willingly advocated to condemn children and adult survivors of SA to forced pregnancy and childbirth. They have smiled while stating the reasons people who can birth children shouldn't be allowed life-saving medical care when miscarrying. They have incited and clapped for the brutalizing of Black and Brown bodies. So no, I have no prayers to offer Kirk or respectable statements against violence.
The statement garnered a great deal of attention and was widely commented upon and negatively received. The Plaintiff removed the statement from her account four and one-half hours later and posted an apology….
Stokes was fired, and the court concluded the firing likely didn't violate the First Amendment:
