I think the good AG needs to understand a hard, cold truth:
"Hate speech" is Constitutionally protected.
I thought this was pretty good:
The Attorney General on speech that ‘edges towards violence’ and ‘acts of anti-Muslim hatred, including rhetoric’
"Hate speech" is Constitutionally protected.
I thought this was pretty good:
The Attorney General on speech that ‘edges towards violence’ and ‘acts of anti-Muslim hatred, including rhetoric’
Even constitutionally protected speech might lead prosecutors to investigate whether the speaker is planning constitutionally unprotected criminal action or has already committed a crime. “ISIS is doing great work, and I really feel moved to join in that work” is constitutionally protected speech, but prosecutors might reasonably look into just what the speaker has been doing. (For some such investigation, such as wiretaps, they might need probable cause and a warrant; for other investigation, such as following the person or asking around about him, all they’d need is their own hunch.) The same is true of people who say, “All Muslims are terrorists, and I really feel moved to fight back against them.”