The Supreme Court won’t hear the case of a former public school teacher who sued her school district for firing her allegedly as retaliation for social media posts that preceded her employment there.
The petitioner, Kari MacRae, is currently a Republican candidate in the 2026 election for a Cape Cod-area seat in the Massachusetts State Senate.
The court denied the petition in MacRae v. Mattos in an unsigned order on June 30. The court did not explain its decision.
No justices dissented, but Justice Clarence Thomas attached a statement criticizing the federal appeals court’s legal analysis of the case as “deeply flawed.”…