A former state employee who was fired for making a social media comment related to Charlie Kirk is now suing the commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance.

Monica Meeks

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee on Dec. 10 on behalf of Monica Meeks, a U.S. Army veteran who previously worked as a financial services investigator for TDCI. The lawsuit alleges that Meeks was unlawfully terminated from her job by TDCI Commissioner Carter Lawrence after she commented on another account's Facebook post calling Charlie Kirk a white supremacist.

The suit also alleges that Lawrence violated Meeks’ First Amendment right to free speech due to his personal disagreement with her

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