BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Alexa Sciuto, a Baltimore teacher recognized for her satirical social media posts on points akin to LGBTQ rights, has filed a lawsuit towards a bunch of Republican state delegates and others, alleging they’re conspiring to wreck her profession.
The lawsuit names Republican Delegates Lauren Arikan, Robin Grammer, Ryan Nawrocki, and Kathy Szeliga, in addition to members of the conservative guardian group Mothers for Liberty and the person behind the right-wing social media account Libs of TikTok.
Sciuto accuses the defendants of “conspiring to derail her profession.” Nonetheless, some Republican lawmakers, not named within the lawsuit however half of Maryland’s Freedom Caucus, have defended their colleagues. Delegate Mark Fisher of Calvert County stated, “Nobody’s out to derail her profession,” and described the lawsuit as “frivolous.”
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Delegate Brian Chisholm of Anne Arundel County echoed Fisher’s sentiment, saying, “I feel it is frivolous as a result of I do not assume there’s any indication of any proof that they’ve truly defamed her to the purpose that it had a destructive impact on her profession.”
Sciuto, who beforehand taught in Baltimore County and now works for metropolis colleges, has been a goal of posts by Republicans and parent-rights activists since an alleged loss of life risk final yr towards Equipment Hart, a member of Mothers for Liberty. Sciuto had posted on X, previously referred to as Twitter, above a photograph of Hart, “Officer I swear I did not imply to homicide her,” which supporters of Mothers for Liberty referred to as a “cryptic” risk. Sciuto defended the publish as “on-line political satire.”
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In response, the state delegates named within the lawsuit demanded Sciuto’s removing from county colleges, labeling her actions as “harmful and abhorrent conduct.”
Fisher additional commented on the lawsuit, saying, “It is a frivolous lawsuit, clearly. As a result of we now have the correct of free speech and she has the correct of free speech. That is what the First Modification is for. And as for her lawsuit, I feel it is nearly getting consideration.”
The defendants within the lawsuit haven’t commented, and Sciuto didn’t reply to requests for remark.
