President Donald Trump listens as Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during an event in the Oval Office.
President Donald Trump listens as Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during an event in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., September 15, 2025.(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Charlie performed a fine and richly deserved flaying of Attorney General Pam Bondi this morning over her embrace the same persecutorial logic that the left has been torturing Masterpiece Cakeshop proprietor Jack Phillips with for over a decade.

The AG has since revised her pledge to “absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech” – a directive so unlikely to withstand judicial scrutiny that it could only result in the harassment, not the conviction, of the Justice Department’s targets. Now, Bondi insists that she only ever intended to “target” the speech that results in threats, ...

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