Two court rulings involving posts about the Kirk murder reached opposite First Amendment results. In one, a court held that firing an employee over a Kirk-murder-related post was not a clear First Amendment violation, so the individual defendants were entitled to qualified immunity. The court cited earlier cases in which employees were fired for right-wing speech that many also found offensive.
In the other, a doxing suit over a post criticizing a government employee's Kirk-murder-related post was rejected on First Amendment grounds. That decision shielded the critic from liability for the challenged post.
The cases share a subject and a common legal theme, but they diverge: one gives government employers room to discipline speech, while the other treats the critic's speech as protected enough to defeat a doxing claim.