Trump-Bashing Alaska State Attorney Mostly Wins Free Speech Suit

A former assistant attorney general in Alaska who regularly bashed President Donald Trump on her personal blog and on Twitter was fired in violation of her free speech rights, a federal judge in Anchorage ruled.

Tuckerman Babcock, the chair of then-newly elected Gov. Michael Dunleavy (R)'s transition team, didn’t cite Elizabeth Bakalar’s blog and Twitter posts as the reason for her termination, the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska said. He instead said he believed Bakalar’s letter of resignation, which all attorneys in the state’s department of law were required to submit after Dunleavy’s win, demonstrated an unprofessional ...