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Randi Weingarten fought Texas to let teachers celebrate Charlie Kirk's murder. It didn't go her way.

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It's been almost a full year since Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University. In that time, numerous liberals have outed themselves as bloodthirsty extremists, expressing joy over the murder of the young father of two. The Lone Star State made abundantly clear that it would not tolerate such extremism — especially not among public servants and those charged with educating the youth. 'The Court’s order is not what we were hoping for.' This evidently vexed American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and the Texas American Federation of Teachers, who announced a lawsuit in January challenging the crackdown on Texas educators' public expression of pro-assassination sentiments. The lawsuit did not go over as planned. How it started Two days after Kirk was assassinated, Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath sent a letter to district superintendents, warning that his agency was aware that some Texas public school educators had p