You may have seen in the national news, and on social media, that the Superintendent of Jefferson County Schools, in Jefferson County, West Virginia, decided to come after school employees who attended the Trump Rally on January 6, 2020. At least two employees, both long-time school bus drivers, who attended the rally, and who never entered any prohibited areas near the Capitol, never witnessed violence, never participated in violence, destruction of property, trespassing, etc., were suspended on January 8, 2020, and remain suspended as of this time.
This afternoon we filed a federal Section 1983 civil rights lawsuit against the Superintendent, individually, for money damages. Here’s the filing:
Here’s a live video filmed just after we filed the lawsuit, going over the Complaint:
Also, I’ll be on the Tom Roton Morning Show Tuesday morning at around 7:30 a.m. It’s always a good discussion on hit show…..
Here’s where the school administrators leaked the false allegations against my clients to the TV News, despite it supposedly being a “personnel matter”:
Here’s an article from the WV Metro News, discussing the letter she released today, at about the same time we filed suit.
And here’s the letter itself, doubling down, essentially:
This is a blatant attack on the core of the First Amendment: the right to assemble and protest in a traditional forum of public speech, such as the U.S. Capitol. These clients did not pass into any prohibited area that day. They committed no crime while in Washington D.C. They’re exercise of free speech had absolutely nothing to do with their employment as school bus drivers for Jefferson County Schools. They just so happened to have a political activist superintendent.
How’s that belief in the system working out?
Good work, sir. Keep it up.
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