BOCA RATON, Fla. – After a nurse lost her job this month, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is now calling for her license to be removed.
According to CBS affiliate WPEC, the nurse — identified as Alexis “Lexie” Lawler in Boca Raton — posted a TikTok video where she made graphic comments about White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who recently announced her pregnancy.
WPEC reports that Lawler said it “gives (her) great joy” to wish Leavitt would suffer a fourth-degree tear during childbirth — the most severe kind of vaginal tear.
After her video went viral, Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer announced on Facebook that he reached out to the hospital she worked at, confirming that she was “no longer employed there.”
I was in touch with hospital leadership as soon as I learned this afternoon and have been informed that this person is no longer employed there. These disgusting comments have no place in medicine or in our community. https://t.co/6QoeQkvFrw
— Scott Singer (@ScottSingerUSA) January 23, 2026
But that’s not where it ended. On Sunday evening, Uthmeier announced via X that he was “glad she lost her job.”
The attorney general also brought up the controversy during a news conference on Monday, arguing that Lawler should have her license taken away.
“When you have nurses, healthcare officials that are threatening the livelihood, threatening moms going through delivery — the toughest of times — for partisan political reasons, that is wrong," he said. “These people should not have a license. If you’re going to make threats saying because somebody is a Republican, I hope they get injured severely during childbirth, that’s unacceptable.”
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Glad she lost her job. Now it’s time for the license! https://t.co/XHiSqBhKyt
— James Uthmeier (@JamesUthmeierFL) January 26, 2026
News 6 searched state records with the Department of Health, which show that a registered nurse named Alexis Lawler still has an active license in Florida, though it’s currently set to expire on April 30.
No records of discipline cases or public complaints were included by the agency.
It’s not the first time that the state has gone after officials for social media activity, though.
Following the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk last year, Florida Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas warned educators against posting “despicable comments” online.
[BELOW: Florida teachers warned after Charlie Kirk assassination]
Afterward, Uthmeier also announced that the state had launched a new online portal through which members of the public could report evidence of teachers making “threats of violent extremism,” including social media posts.
“Any educator who makes vile, despicable comments celebrating and encouraging violence in schools will be investigated and held accountable,” Kamoutsas said at the time.
[BELOW: Florida to open portal to report threats, revoke teacher licenses]