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Government officials have made statements and taken actions that First Amendment advocates find alarming.

Free speech scholars maintain that even reprehensible speech is protected from government suppression, but not from consequences by private employers.

Charile Kirk championed peoples' right to speech others may find inappropriate.

Charlie Kirk built his reputation championing free speech before his assassination in Utah on Sept. 10.

He debated thousands of students who disagreed with him and said the U.S. Constitution protected so-called "hate speech," "ugly speech," "gross speech" and even "evil speech."

Yet in the week since Kirk's assassination at a college, his supporters have sought to punish people for speech they find inappropriate. They include governm

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