Nicole Solas, a lightning rod of Rhode Island, suspects Miguel Cardona chose her on X because “of her high profile and reputation among those interested in this discussion, as well as her previous activism on this topic.”

A First Amendment lawsuit alleges that Education Secretary Miguel Cardona censored a Rhode Island mom who posted images of the books on his X page in response to his criticisms about efforts to remove sexually explicit books from public schools libraries.

She alleges that the Biden-Harris official hid Nicole Solas’s comment by hiding it with the Fun Home picture. Nicole Solas is a persistent bugbear of Ocean State officials and educators, including Attorney General Peter Neronha for her requests for public records.

According to a suit filed on her behalf by Center for American Liberty, he did the same thing when Solas posted an image of Gender Queer – another book that is frequently removed from school libraries. Both books feature minors performing oral sexual acts on other minors.

The suit states that Solas “commonly interacted with the accounts on X of public officials in connection with her advocacy regarding the sexualization of education and its politicization, particularly in younger grades,”

Her fights in Rhode Island have made her “nationally known.” Fox News published her 2022 editorial that questioned the American Library Association’s claim that Gender Queer has ever been “banned”. She argued that if there was any censorship in relation to adult-themed literature, it would be “dissent against the narrative that books are “banned,”” according to the lawsuit.

Solas filed a lawsuit against her school district, former board members and the district itself for allegedly outsourcing her intimidation to teachers unions. The unions then sued Solas in order to block her requests to receive district curriculum and teaching material related to critical race theories and gender identity.

Solas stated in an X-video on the Cardona suit that blurred images of Fun Home, Gender Queer and This Book Is Gay were used.

Cardona removed her posts from the “public forum” and hid the pornography, which was in fact at public schools. The Department of Education is now censoring my posts because I disagree with the Department of Education’s claim that removing such material from school libraries was censorship.

Solas said to Just the News she blurred the Fun Home picture in her comment, but not the Gender Queer in her next comment. Both were hidden by Cardona. The images appear blurred in the lawsuit but, according to Cardona, the Center for American Liberty led by GOP superlawyer Harmeet Dhillon blurred them all in her video.

The 2nd U.S. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sparked a legal flurry against public officials in social media when it prohibited then-President Trump’s ability to block his critics. It deemed his hugely popular Twitter account a “public platform” because he “used it as a primary vehicle for [his] official communications… some of which were of great national significance.”

The Solas lawsuit claims that Cardona did not respond to Libs’ comment, which contained “dozens of images of pornographic content from schoolbooks widely reported as banned books.'” This comment “contained much more pornographic material,” expressed the exact same opinion, and was seen by far more people than hers because the account has millions of followers.

According to the lawsuit, she assumes that her first comment, in which Cardona called her out for censoring herself, would have received more traffic if it had not been hidden. Her second response, where Cardona called her out for censoring, and which he did not hide, received three-times as many views.

Solas claimed that she would not have known that her comment had been hidden if other X users hadn’t alerted her, because X does not notify users when this happens.

According to the 20 page lawsuit, “Secretary Cardona should have known or knew” that his two actions taken against her comments amounted to “unconstitutional” censorship because “hidden comments” are “moved” to a “separate page.”

Cardona concealed replies from two other people to his original post on Sept. 17, one of whom posted Gender Queer pictures. Solas was the only one Cardona hid when she posted Gender Queer pictures in response to a post he made on Sept. 18, asking why anyone would not want “diversity”, even though other replies “contained the same viewpoint or images,” according to the lawsuit.

Solas believes the federal official has targeted her because of “her high profile, reputation with people who are interested in this debate and her previous activism on this topic.”

The lawsuit demands that Cardona refrain from engaging in “viewpoint based exclusion or the censorship” of posts by Solas, or others, “by blocking, deleting, or hiding posts or restricting users to be able to comment,” claiming it is a violation to her constitutional right to “petition for grievances to the government.”

Just the News did not receive a response from the Department of Education on Thursday.

Solas responded to Neronha’s dare to file him by posting records that showed he had muted Neronha, the Just the News reporter, and 150 other people on his personal X profile, where he mixed personal and official affairs and identified himself as AG. A muting account is one that can remove posts of others from the timeline.

The high court sent these cases back to the 9th and 6th circuits, after ruling that an official who blocks comments had to have “actual authority to speak for the State on a specific matter” and must “have purported to exercise this authority when speaking on relevant social media posts” in order to violate the First Amendment.

Solas’s bad blood with Neronha dates back to when she asked his office to open meetings of the school district that discussed race-related issues. She filed a formal complaint against him for “willful violations” of the Access to Public Records Act, and requested an independent review by a “special counsel”.

The two have been arguing over X. Neronha called Solas a lunatic last week after she replied to his post on recruiting “newly minted doctors” to the state, asking if those doctors would “have to sterilize or mutilate” children for transgender transformation like your wife’s group of medical professionals?

Solas wrote about Coastal Medical a year before.