LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal court in Arkansas declined to grant the injunction requested by a state health department employee who was fired after she made dismissive comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination on Facebook. She wanted the court to order a “name-clearing hearing” to challenge her former employee’s allegedly “stigmatizing” statements, but the government is not presently chilling her speech. She has already been fired, so she does not face the kind of irreparable harm that would warrant a preliminary injunction.
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