Meritless Lawfare Must Go: Teacher Celebrates Charlie Kirk’s Murder Online, Then Sues Moms for Liberty for Calling Her Out on It
By Horatio Mihet
When truth gets dragged into court, we have a responsibility to defend it. Every. Single. Time.
On the day after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Jacksonville public school teacher Hope McMath publicly celebrated Kirk’s murder with a vile and disgusting Facebook post: “Karma is a b****,” she said, “and she heard all your speeches...”
Not a rumor. Not a misquote. Her words. Her post. Her choice. And it didn’t stop there.
McMath’s social media was littered with similarly controversial and divisive posts, raising serious questions about judgment, bias, and professionalism in the public-school classroom.
Citizens saw it. They reported it. They asked school officials to do their job.
Enter Moms for Liberty — doing exactly what citizens are supposed to do: petition their government.
They didn’t just raise concerns about posts in a vacuum. They asked deeper, obvious questions:
Were these publicly expressed views making their way into the classroom?
Was the teacher sticking to approved curriculum — or injecting personal bias?
That’s called accountability.
And now Hope McMath is SUING them for reporting her posts to Duval County Public Schools and the Florida Department of Education.
That’s not justice — that’s retaliation.
That’s not accountability — that’s intimidation.
Let’s call this what it is: a meritless lawsuit designed to punish citizens for reporting a public employee’s own public statements — and asking whether those views were impacting students.
Moms for Liberty didn’t invent anything. They didn’t distort anything. They didn’t control what happened next.
They simply said: “Here are her words. You decide.”
School officials made their own decisions, as they should. But McMath wants to flip the script and make citizens the villains for speaking up. Not on our watch!
Enter Liberty Counsel. This week we filed a motion to dismiss this frivolous lawfare lawsuit, and we asked the federal court to order McMath to pay our legal fees and costs.
You can’t sue people for telling the truth. You can’t sue people for petitioning the government. And you can’t use the courts as a weapon to silence your critics.
If McMath’s theory were the law, then every parent, every citizen, and every watchdog would think twice before speaking up.
That’s exactly the chilling effect the First Amendment forbids. So yes, we stepped in. Because the Constitution doesn’t defend itself.
And citizens shouldn’t need a lawyer just to report what they can see with their own eyes. PRAY this case is dismissed quickly, and decisively.
Free speech is not a liability. It’s a right.
And if telling the truth gets you sued, the problem isn’t the truth; it’s the lawsuit.
For more from Horatio Mihet, Vice President of Legal Affairs and Chief Litigation Counsel at Liberty Counsel, click HERE.
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