Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall responded to an “invitation” by a left-wing filmmaker who recently criticized the state’s justice system.

Andrew Jarecki, who used an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” to promote his film “The Alabama Solution,” said he invited Marshall to join him at the Oscars.

Marshall hit back, saying that less than a day prior to his late night show interview, Jarecki sent an aide to the Alabama Attorney General’s office, demanding a staffer sign an “invitation” to attend the Oscars with the director, who is promoting a biased film made by smuggling contraband cell phones to convicted felons in Alabama prisons.

The attorney general claimed it was all just a “publicity stunt” for a movie that is “biased.”

“Jarecki’s team had a letter sent to me at our office ‘inviting’ me to come to the Oscars to be able to watch a viewing of his propaganda ‘documentary,’” Marshall said in a video response. “And the next day, he immediately goes to the couch of Jimmy Fallon, expressing Hollywood outrage at no response, despite the fact that neither Kay Ivey nor I were going to dignify his publicity stunt with a reply.”

Marshall argued that Jarecki’s is just pushing a “soft on crime” message.

“Here’s what I also know: it is radicals like Jarecki and Fallon who are simply soft on crime,” he said. “They’re more worried about releasing people from prisons than they are about ensuring public safety. And if in fact he wanted to be able to do justice, then should there have been one frame, one interview, one portion of that firm talking to the family members of the victims of those underlying crimes, allowing them to share their stories? Because, in fact, if you want to send somebody to the Oscars, let’s send those families so they can talk about the consequences of crime that they faced as a result of what was done to them.”

Marshall, who is also a candidate for the U.S. Senate, said he’s not going to change how Alabama administers justice.

“Y’all, I’m not going to be intimidated by any kind of Hollywood insiders – not as your Attorney General, and definitely not as your next United States Senator,” he said. “Keep your Oscars. We’ll keep our values: protecting victims and not celebrating criminals.”

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee