Attorney General Pam Bondi is once again in trouble with her own party over her promise to prosecute “hate speech,” with concerns over free speech rivaling the criticism she faced over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
On Tuesday, Bondi qualified her statement that the Justice Department would “go after you if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.” She narrowed the scope to cases in which the speech incites violence, listing examples of when the government might prosecute from her X account.
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