Solas v. Cardona

Nicole Solas is the Department of Education’s worst nightmare. A courageous mother of two in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, Nicole is unwilling to blindly trust that leftists running her kids’ schools have their best interest at heart.

Nicole requested to view the curriculum being taught in her child’s kindergarten class. She quickly learned the only way to find out what is really going on in schools is to file public records requests. It cost her $74,000 in fees just to obtain public records that should have been readily available to any parent upon request. She was even sued by the teachers’ union to stop the school district from providing Nicole with the curriculum and public records she requested.

But Nicole never backed down. She never wavered. And now, she is exposing public schools for the pornographic materials educators are using, in the classroom, to sexual children at a young age.

Miguel Cardona is the Secretary of Education. After taking to X, using his official government account, to condemn efforts to “censor” books, Nicole decided to exercise her First Amendment rights. She replied to Sec. Cardona’s post, repeatedly, by posting cartoon images from the controversial “banned” book Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. The images are cartoon drawings of teenage children performing sexual acts on each other.

Secretary Cardona apparently agreed that such images were not appropriate for public view because within minutes of Nicole’s reply post, Secretary Cardona used X’s “hide” function to censor Nicole’s post from public view.

Too inappropriate for X but not for young children in public schools seems to be the Department of Education’s position on pornography.

Today, the Center for American Liberty, on behalf of Nicole Solas, is suing Secretary Cardona for violating Nicole’s First Amendment rights by censoring disfavored viewpoints on X. Government officials may not leverage the power of government to discriminate against viewpoints that make them look bad.