NEW YORK − Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Sept. 16 jumped into the free speech debate swirling around the killing of Charlie Kirk .

“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,’” she said at event on civic education.

Sotomayor did not identify any particular lawyer. But her remarks came a day after Attorney General Pam Bondi vowed to go after “those who engage in hate speech.” More: Charlie Kirk shooting live updates: Tyler Robinson charged with murder, could face death penalty

"There's free speech and then there's hate speech,” Bondi said Sept. 15 on Katie Miller’s podcast, “and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in

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