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🗓️ 17 September 2025
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Hate speech is protected by the First Amendment's free speech rights. However, Attorney General Pam Bondi, either not knowing or not caring about this constitutional protection, expressly threatened to use the powers of the Department of Justice to "target" people who engage in hate speech. What's worse, when she tried to issue what some have called a "walk back", she neither corrected nor retracted her initial constitutional blunder.
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| 0:31.4 | Attorney General Pam Bondi is threatening to target people for saying things she doesn't like, which is a violation of the First Amendment. |
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| 1:18.1 | So friends, Pam Bondi continues to prove to the American people that she is entirely ill-suited |
| 1:25.3 | to be attorney general. |
| 1:28.3 | Hate speech is protected by the First Amendment. |
| 1:32.3 | Like it or not, that is what the Supreme Court has said. |
| 1:37.3 | And yet, Pam Bondi said in an interview that she would use the powers of the Department of Justice to target people |
| 1:46.1 | for hate speech. That's right. The Attorney General will target people for exercising |
| 1:53.9 | their First Amendment free speech rights. Let's start with the new reporting. This from time, Attorney General Pam Bondi has |
| 2:05.2 | prompted a backlash from conservatives after signaling the Justice Department would |
| 2:11.2 | prosecute hate speech in the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk. This quote from Pam Bondi, |
| 2:19.0 | there's free speech and then there's hate speech. |
| 2:23.0 | And there's no place, especially now, |
| 2:25.8 | especially after what happened to Charlie Kirk, |
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