A retired Tennessee law enforcement officer was held in jail for more than a month this fall after police arrested him over a Facebook post of a meme related to the September assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Prosecutors eventually dropped the criminal charge brought against Larry Bushart, but his stint behind bars came to exemplify the country’s tense political and legal climate following the tragedy, when conservatives sought to stymie public discourse about the late controversial figure that it saw as objectionable.

Now, Bushart is suing over his incarceration.

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    15 hours ago

    That’s one states articles of succession and I’m fairly sure the president of the Confederacy is probably a more definitive source as to the Confederacy and btw Lincoln agreed.

    Here’s a fun question you’ve yet to address, why is slavery still legal in the United States if the war was to abolish slavery? Why were people still treated as property well into the 1900s?

    Yes because that’s the property right they were trying to protect in interstate travel. I’m sorry two things can be true but learn to deal with it I guess.