Maria Ruhtenberg, an attorney with the Iowa Office of the State Public Defender, has settled with the state after she was fired and later reinstated following online comments she made about the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Kathryn Gamble for NPR
Kathryn Gamble for NPR
By the time Maria Ruhtenberg was fired from her job last September for posting about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, few people even knew what she had written.
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