"There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society. We will absolutely target you, go after you if you are targeting anyone with hate speech, anything, and that's across the aisle."
"Our Attorney General is apparently a moron. There's free speech and then there is hate speech.' No ma'am. That is not the law. There is no hate speech exception to the First Amendment. Nevertheless, the attorney general says "there's free speech, and then there's hate speech," and the government will "target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.""
"Thought I'd heard every known variation of hate speech isn't free speech over the past 20 years of doing First Amendment work. But this one is new to me. Because that's the U.S. Attorney General talking and promising to go after you for protected speech. My goodness."
Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that there is free speech and separate hate speech, saying the government will target individuals who use hate speech. Conservative host Erick Erickson called Bondi a 'moron' and argued that hate speech is protected by the First Amendment. Free speech advocates and commentators, including FIRE and Will Creeley, criticized Bondi's framing as legally incorrect and alarming. Others, such as Brit Hume and Auron MacIntyre, warned that promising government action against protected speech undermines constitutional protections and could politically damage efforts to address terrorism and extremism.
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