Did U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi file a petition requesting to remove Bad Bunny from the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show? No, that’s not true: Lead Stories searched publicly available documents from the Department of Justice and found no such petition. No credible media organizations reported on any such official action.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on October 6, 2025, on Facebook. It opened:
BREAKING: Pam Bondi has officially filed a petition asking the NFL to remove Bad Bunny from the 2026 Super Bowl halftime lineup…
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at facebook.com/westvirginiawomensmarch
Benito Antonio MartÃnez Ocasio (archived here), a Grammy-winning Puerto Rican rapper professionally known as Bad Bunny, was scheduled to perform (archived here) at the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show on September 28, 2025, but, as of this writing, there was no evidence confirming the existence of official action opposing his performance.
A search across the Department of Justice pages (archived here) did not show Bondi taking action against the show.
Searches across Google News (archived here) and Yahoo News (archived here) did not yield media reports about it, either.
The claim appeared to have originated from an October 3, 2025, post (archived here) on Facebook that was published by a meme-posting page partially managed from Vietnam.
Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of facebook.com/hin149
That post promoted an article (archived here) published on the same date. That variation of the claim alleged that Bondi made public statements calling on the NFL to cancel Bad Bunny’s performance. But a search (archived here) for the words attributed to the U.S. Attorney General did not show any credible news articles reporting such an action.
