Credit: Bloomicon/Shutterstock.com Attorney Ousted From Employment With Ethics Board Said His Tweets Were Protected Speech
"If [the Board is] concerned with the image that it has in the state, they should consider that President Trump carried the state by 70%," said the appellant's attorney Gary Blackburn. While Trump twice carried the state by landslide margins, his actual share of the vote was nearly 61% in each of the 2016 and 2020 elections, according to official returns.
October 19, 2022 at 01:04 PM
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Civil Appeals
A lawyer who formerly worked for Tennessee's legal ethics body told an appeals court Wednesday that his political tweets—cited by attorney discipline officials as showing anti-Muslim bias and partial grounds for his termination—were protected by the First Amendment guarantee of free speech.
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