MaddowBlog-AG Pam Bondi eyes case against Office Depot employee who wouldn't print Charlie Kirk flyer [View all]

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The attorney general’s “hate speech” comments were a mess. Her line on an Office Depot employee with personal objections to Kirk made the mess worse.

AG Pam Bondi eyes case against Office Depot employee who wouldn’t print Charlie Kirk flyer
The attorney general’s “hate speech” comments were a mess. Her line on an Office Depot employee with personal objections to Kirk made the mess worse.
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— CVJ (@enuffsaysv.bsky.social) 2025-09-17T18:50:20.228Z

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Complicating matters, however, these weren’t the only problematic comments from the Florida Republican. The New York Times reported on what Bondi went on to say hours after the controversial podcast interview.

In an interview on Fox News’s ‘Hannity’ late Monday, Ms. Bondi suggested that she might direct the Justice Department’s civil rights division to ‘prosecute’ businesses if they turned away customers who wanted to print pictures of Mr. Kirk for memorial vigils, citing the case of an Office Depot employee in Michigan who was fired for rejecting such an order.

.......Just so we’re all clear, this isn’t exactly conservative orthodoxy. When state officials in Colorado sanctioned a baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple and the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018, conservatives sided with the baker, arguing that if a private business wants to discriminate on the basis of personal beliefs, it should be able to do so. (Spoiler alert: The high court's conservative justices agreed.)

Bondi, however, apparently believes it’s a federal civil rights violation if an Office Depot employee had personal objections to Kirk and didn’t want to print fliers with his picture.