From an opinion last week by Florida Administrative Law Judge Garnett W. Chisenhall in Mack v. McMath: After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a well-known political activist, on September 10, 2025, Ms. McMath wrote the following message on her Facebook account, "Karma's a bitch—and she heard all your speeches when you proudly proclaimed that you didn't give a shit about other people's lives." She also shared an image of the author, E. Jean Carroll, holding the severed head of Donald Trump, the President of the United States. With regard to her posting about karma, Ms. McMath asserts she was not celebrating Mr. Kirk's assassination: "There was nothing to celebrate that day. I felt, and the language in my post reflects that it was a dark moment. It was a hard moment. And it was a moment also filled with a lot of complexity. And so I was not celebrating, and the language in that post and the intention behind that post was not celebratory." As for the image of Ms. Carroll holding President Trump's severed head. Ms. McMath asserts the image has symbolic significance: So it's an image by a political cartoonist that I follow and appreciate. It's an image of Jean Carroll holding the severed head of Donald Trump. He put it out—he made that drawing, the artist, on the day that Jean Carroll received justice within the judicial system for her lawsuit against the President on allegations of rape and sexual assault. It also was an image that I found compelling because it's a symbolic image. It's not an image where the artist or me are saying that somebody needs to go out and cut somebody's head off. It's an image that actually falls in a long history of images of survivorship that go back to the Middle Ages from Judith and Holofernes. I mean, I could list off all kinds of examples, but we're not here for an art history lesson. And so it's a symbolic image that is about women who have been abused overcoming their abuser. There is no evidence that Ms. McMath's posts were made during any school-related function or through the use of school-owned property. There is no indication within the posts that Ms. McMath was speaking on behalf of Douglas Anderson or the School District. There is no evidence that the posts were associated with her duties as an educator… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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