"US Attorney General Pam Bondi faced blowback from the right yesterday after she announced the Department of Justice would "'absolutely target' protesters engaging in 'hate speech,'" an example of which she considered an Office Depot employee who declined to print posters for a vigil to honor slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Conservatives who'd fought for bakers and florists, for instance, to have the right to refuse service to gay people getting married were kind of freaked out by the new policy."
"A "senior Justice Department Official" walked back her remarks. ( NYT) Beyond their insult to the First Amendment and Supreme Court precedent, Bondi's comments even "ran afoul of Kirk's own commentary." ( CNN) Ouch: "Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed," Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said yesterday. ( Politico)"
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