Various Tennessee officials/governments may end up paying more than $3.2 million in 2026 to cover invalid firings/arrests over comments about a conservative activist.

University of Tennessee System officials have approved a tentative agreement that would pay a former UT-Knoxville professor who was fired over comments she made in the wake of political activist ... assassination nearly $2 million.

The professor claimed that her 1st Amendment rights were violated.

Austin Peay State University in Clarksville reinstated a professor in January and paid him a $500,000 settlement after he sued over his firing over comments he made about the conservative activist.

Tennessee officials will pay $835,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was jailed for more than a month over a Facebook post he made about the assassination of the conservative activist.