Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday backpedaled her comments about using law enforcement to target groups engaged in "hate speech" after she faced broad criticism.

The attorney general also said she could investigate businesses that refused to print Charlie Kirk vigil posters.

On Tuesday's "Alex Marlow Show," Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec talked about statements on hate speech from Attorney General Pam Bondi. Posobiec | Clips

Bondi’s rhetoric turns a legal non-category into a political weapon.

Critics are destroying U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for demanding businesses fire or punish employees who exercise free speech — after years of defending businesses’ right to deny customers with whom they disagree.While speaking to Fox News on Monday, Bondi demanded a print business allow a custo...

The MAGA base and liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor don’t see eye to eye on much, but they agree that criminalizing “hate speech” is not constitutional. Sotomayor joined right-wing commentators Tuesday morning to criticize Attorney General Pam Bondi’s proposed crackdown on free speech in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. “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 told a panel at New York Law School on Tuesday, according to Politico and NBC News.