Attorney General Pam Bondi has made quite the First Amendment-related faux pas: In a recent interview about what the federal government could do to deter political violence in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, she said the government would "go after" anyone engaged in hate speech.

Bondi should know, however, that hate speech is vigorously protected by the First Amendment, and as such, cannot be policed.

Unfortunately, the attorney general made an illusory distinction between free speech and hate speech, implying that the latter was subject to government action. "There's free speech and then there's hate speech,” she said, “and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society."

Bondi sounds like Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Kamala Harris's........

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