Laura Sosh-Lightsy worked at Middle Tennessee State University for over two decades before getting fired over a social media post about Charlie Kirk. On Wednesday, she filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the university.

On Sept. 10, Sosh-Lightsy posted on Facebook that she was not celebrating Kirk’s death, but she did not have sympathy for him due to his prior comments about gun violence. Her comments went viral, and Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn chimed in on social media. Sosh-Lightsy was then fired, like others around the country, after posting critical comments about Kirk in the wake of his killing.

According to the complaint, Sosh-Lightsy’s posts about Kirk’s death and his comments on gun violence were made as a private citizen speaking on a matter of public concern, and,

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