Attorney General Pam Bondi sparked a backlash this week by announcing the Trump administration would target “hate speech” in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s shooting. Somewhat surprisingly, the backlash came from both the left and the right.

Bondi appeared to “shrug off First Amendment concerns” with her pronouncement, said NBC News . “There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech,” she told podcaster Katie Miller, adding that “we will absolutely target you, go after you” for using hate speech . Lawyers who talk of “ criminalizing free speech ” are the products of “failed” law schools, said Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. President Donald Trump’s allies also pushed back, noting Kirk himself had argued against hate speech prosecutions. It is a “very important part o

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