Does Attorney General Pam Bondi misunderstand the law, or does she want Donald Trump’s supporters to misunderstand the law? Either would be bad, but the question arises in connection with her recent comments about so-called hate speech. Speaking on a podcast hosted by Katie Miller (wife of Trump aide Stephen Miller), Bondi said, “There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech.” (msnbc)
Pammy, who turned the other cheek when she had the chance to apply justice to Jeffrey Epstein, while the Banana Republic of Florida’s Attorney General, has once again demonstrated her disregard for our laws and Constitution, replacing it with her loyalty to the guy who wants to be Judge, Jury, and Prosecutor, DonOLD Trump.
So now the government, not just any government, the government run by a 34-count Felon, Sexual Harasser, Rapist, Racist, Fraudster, and wanna be Fascist is telling the American public that THEY will decipher between what is hateful and what is not.
But she’s incorrect. The law doesn’t make such a distinction. The point has been reinforced by none other than Justice Samuel Alito, certainly no wilting liberal. “Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express ‘the thought that we hate,’” he wrote in a 2017 opinion. (msnbc)
