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Attorney General Pam Bondi In a podcast interview on Monday, she suggested prosecuting “hate speech” under the law, thus receiving backlash from liberals and conservatives on social media.
Attorney General Go to X On Tuesday, to clarify her position, hate speech will only be prosecuted if the language used exceeds the ones that demand violence.
“Hate speech involving the threat of violence is not subject to First Amendment. “It’s a crime. That era is over,” Bondy wrote.
Attorney General Pam Bondi. (Craig Hudson/Reuters)
In a conversation with Katie Miller, wife of Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Bundy said the federal government will “target” those who exploit hate speech against others after the killing of Turning Point USAS founder Charlie Kirk.
“Free speech, then hate speech, there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie in our society,” Bondy said. “If you target anyone with hate speech, we will definitely target you, follow you.”
Bondy’s individuals at both ends of the political field have been criticized on social media, with the main argument that there are no exceptions to hate speech in the First Amendment.
After Bondy vowed to “protect every religion in this country”
Conservative broadcaster Erick Erickson lashed Bondi as an “idiot” and told the attorney general bluntly “no wife. That’s not the law.”
Fox News’s Brit Hume also took a stance on Bondi’s comments, noting that while hate speech may be offensive, it is protected by the First Amendment.
Whoopi Goldberg calls Charlie Kirk’s assassination “beyond destruction” in American discourse
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the federal government will “target” those who exploit hate speech after the assassination of US founder Charlie Kirk at the U.S. turning point. She has since clarified her comments. (Alex Brandon/AP)
Conservative commentator Maggie Moda said Bundy sounded like “every constitutional illiterate liberal debated over the past decade” and said Kirk “don’t want this.”
Steve Cortes, a former Trump administration adviser, expressed a similar view on Moda, saying Kirk “correctly despised” the concept of hate speech law and called for the firing of Bondy.
“Fight ‘hate speech’ in the name of Charlie Kirk?” he asked.
On the other side of the political spectrum, Cenk Uygur, the founder of the “Young Turks”, praised the Conservative Party for “staying principle” and delayed Bondy’s comments on hate speech.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald said it was a “toxic claim” and a “foundation of the left-wing liberal censorship.”
On Tuesday’s MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, co-host Willie Geist read several articles criticizing Bondy and Kirk In 2024, he wrote: “Hate speech does not exist in the United States. There is ugly speech. The speech sums up. There is evil speech. All of this speech is protected by the First Amendment. Keep America free.”
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