Lawmakers crack down on Charlie Kirk posts. What about free speech?

By Claire Heddles, Miami Herald (TNS)

Florida politicians insist their efforts to punish people over comments they don’t like about Charlie Kirk’s killing aren’t flying in the face of the First Amendment.

Free speech advocates aren’t so sure.

“It’s a massive free speech problem,” Florida International University law professor Howard Wasserman said. “This is exactly what the First Amendment prohibits, which is the government punishing people — including through something like firing them from their job or pushing a private employer to fire them from their job — because the government or people in the government don’t like what somebody says.”

Florida lawmakers have been on the front lines of a mounting effort on the right to punish people who have criticized the conservative activist