On the day after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Jacksonville public school teacher Hope McMath publicly celebrated his murder with a vile and disgusting public Facebook post. "Karma is a b****” she posted, “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 her judgment, bias, and professionalism in the classroom.

Citizens saw this vile post. Parents saw it, too.

Enter Moms for Liberty — doing exactly what citizens are supposed to do: petitioning their government. These moms didn’t just raise concerns about the posts in a vacuum. They asked two deeper, obvious questions:

1. Were these publicly expressed views making their way into the classroom?
2. Was the teacher following approved curriculum — or injecting personal bias?

That’s called accountability. And now Hope McMath is SUING Moms for Liberty over the public posts she herself made for the world to see!

That’s retaliation. 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.

Florida has an Anti-SLAPP law. SLAPP stands for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. That is exactly the intent of this teacher — she wants to silence Moms for Liberty.

Liberty Counsel has now taken up the case using the Anti-SLAPP law, which means that this teacher could be held responsible for attorney’s fees and costs over her frivolous litigation.

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 Hope McMath wants to flip the script and make citizens the villains for speaking up.

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This week we filed a motion to dismiss this frivolous lawfare suit, 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 cannot use the courts as a weapon to silence your critics.

If Hope McMath’s theory were the law, every parent, every citizen, every watchdog would think twice before speaking up. That’s exactly the chilling effect the First Amendment forbids.

Liberty Counsel 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.

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.

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Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

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Source:

“Teacher’s Lawsuit Against Moms for Liberty Should Be Dismissed.” Liberty Counsel, March 20, 2026. LC.org/newsroom/details/032026-teachers-lawsuit-against-moms-for-liberty-should-be-dismissed.