Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez avoided having to testify by settling a federal lawsuit brought forth by a New York Democrat for blocking him on Twitter.
Former New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind, citing precedent with a ruling against President Trump earlier this year, filed a lawsuit against Ocasio-Cortez in July.
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In a statement announcing his lawsuit, Hikind claimed he was blocked by the Congresswoman “apparently because my critique of her tweets and policies have been too stinging.”
AOC on Monday issued an apology, seemingly part of the settlement, but vowed to reserve the right to block others in the future.
“Mr. Hikind has a First Amendment right to express his views and should not be blocked for them,” the socialist darling of the Empire State sheepishly stated. “In retrospect, it was wrong and improper and does not reflect the values I cherish.”
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“I sincerely apologize for blocking Mr. Hikind.”
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Hey @BrooksHeatherly, would this be another AOC’s dumbest moment worthy? 😂😂😂😂
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez sued by former N.Y. assemblyman, Dov Hikind https://t.co/ztPi4Iq6Jx
— CALVIN KING (@IamCalvinKing) July 19, 2019
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Hikind Celebrates
Hikind, in announcing his lawsuit this past summer, blasted Ocasio-Cortez for trying to silence him and calling her actions “cowardly.”
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“Ocasio-Cortez is acting cowardly and should be ashamed of her attempts to silence me,” Hikind railed. “I’ve done nothing but address her ignorance and disregard for the truth.”
Isn’t that what everyone is trying to do for AOC on twitter really?
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The former Assemblyman took a bit of a victory lap after Ocasio-Cortez’s apology, suggesting this might be the first time anybody has ever heard her admit being wrong about something.
“It’s pretty incredible. She’s apologizing,” Hikind told the Daily News. “This might be the first time that she actually says, ‘I was wrong.’ It’s great. It’s a great victory for First Amendment rights.”
What’s incredible is that someone who is consistently wrong on everything they say would not be able to admit it … until now.
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D-Day is coming: A Federal judge has called @AOC to testify on Nov 5 as to why she suppressed my 1A rights & I’ll confront her in court for supporting antisemites, and distorting Holocaust history.
But I need your help to do it. Do your part by visiting https://t.co/7UTMXpMF2f pic.twitter.com/bdyVSZD4Ja
— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) October 31, 2019
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About Face
AOC’s feeble apology marks a complete reversal of her statement of defiance in the face of the Hikind’s lawsuit.
Hikind had been blocked following harsh criticism of the New York socialist who wantonly compared ICE detention centers to “concentration camps.”
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“You’re actually a liar. It’s been proven,” he wrote in response to one of her unhinged tweets.
AOC claimed that any accounts she had blocked were due to “harassment.”
“Less than 20 accounts are blocked for ongoing harassment,” she wrote. “Harassment is not a viewpoint … No one is entitled to abuse.”
D-Day is coming: A Federal judge has called @AOC to testify on Nov 5 as to why she suppressed my 1A rights & I’ll confront her in court for supporting antisemites, and distorting Holocaust history.
But I need your help to do it. Do your part by visiting https://t.co/7UTMXpMF2f pic.twitter.com/bdyVSZD4Ja
— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) October 31, 2019
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This sudden reversal and apology deprive us of the fireworks that were set to go off at a court hearing in which Ocasio-Cortez was to testify on Tuesday.
“I’ll be confronting congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez in federal court over her suppression of my First Amendment rights by blocking me on Twitter,” Hikind said in a press release last week.
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“On November 5th we will find out why Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has taken the path of cowardice until now, why she needed to block the founder of Americans Against Antisemitism at a time of rising violent antisemitism,” he added.
Now, sadly, we won’t.
Hikind confirmed that Ocasio-Cortez has indeed unblocked him on Twitter.
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Epstein didn’t kill himself.
with AOC, the saying “You can’t fix stupid” applies almost daily.
I for one do not see her being re-elected if she is not tossed before her term ends.
She should have had to make the apology in Public and ensure all News outlets put it at the start of their News shows or front pages of Print News.
AOC can’t be humiliated. She is too dumb.
When the average person has a problem, they deal with it. SHE IS THE PROBLEM and should’ve been dealt with by now. She has not demonstrated being sorry for anything, Just like any good FEEBLE INSANE LIBERAL DEMOTARD TYRUNT. HANG EM HIGH…
AOC is Muslim. As such she has to advance Islam in the World. She is doing so as quickly as she can. Dumb and illiterate Americans are listening to her diatribe and actually believing there is some merit in what AOC says. Warning! Death by beheading is not a pleasant experience!!
I think the judge has not ruled according to the First Amendment. Everyone has the right to speak their opinions and say what they want to say about anyone or anything. Everyone is also required to allow others the same rights that they enjoy.
Others can call you names, spread lies about you, besmear you, etc., and in so doing must understand that they are ultimately responsible for their actions and may suffer repercussions from their actions.
AOC blocked comments from this fellow because those comments, made in order to cause public reactions of an unfavorable kind, qualify him as bullying her. Bullying is illegal.
AOC acted in self-defense and removed a threat to herself by blocking this joker. By blocking this joker she has defended her right not to listen to offensive stuff, or promote it by allowing it. She has not blocked this joker’s right to say what he wants to say about her.
This is one example of why “precedence” in law must not be allowed. Each occurrence must be judged on its own merits, not on previous rulings made based on separate and unrelated facts and conditions.
AOC???!!! WRONG???!!! Yup! More often than not she’s wrong. Now it’s legal. Even a judge agrees she was wrong for blocking someone who called her out for being wrong when she’s wrong. Which is A LOT!!!
Then she is following in obummer’s footsteps. She’s just a little more vocal than obummer. Obummer’s a coward. He wouldn’t say the things in public that AOC says. She’s just plain stupid and/or ignorant.
And to think AOC was thought by the Liberals to be following in Obama’s footsteps………..she hated America as much as he does.
This female needs to be voted out, she is absolutely crazy.
AOC – A hole On Crack
AOC is a racist… Her tirades against White people is over the top… Let’s do a class action against her hate speech ! Why not ?
I bet she pulled all of her dolls hair out after she finished that apology.😄
If some person wiggled their bare butt in traffic, everyone would look. Even if they were sickened by the display.
That person with the bare butt is Ocrazyo. (AOC)
This woman and her squad pals are owned by the Justice Democrats. The four of them signed agreements and are puppets. Started by the Young Turks who got booted and taken over by AOC chief of staff Chakrabati (on the line for stealing a million dollars from campaign funds). All of these people brought to you by Bernie. Bernie’s Boys is what I affectionately call them.
Just look at the mess her Ancestor and his Conquistadores made in South America, The Continent has never recovered, They say that he apple doesn’t fall far from the tree : )
AOC ISN’T SORRY BUT SHE WILL SOON FOR HER INCOMPETENCE AND IGNORANCE OF OUR CONSTITUTION!! GOOD BY AOC WE DON’T NEED YOU!!!
These slimy socialist apologists seem to think they are comforting the victim of their corrupt, selfish behavior. Just goes to show you how far down the sewer pipe they have slid. I question whether you can find enough integrity in the entire corps of dung beetles to fill the palm of one hand.
Just didn’t want to have to pay. Coward all the way like most bullies!
What I would really like to know is why she feels she deserves a salary increase @ this point in her political career, if she has one!
AOC, dumb is as dumb does in your case!
I’m sure AOC and Company will pay off the residents in their district with some kind of kick back or $$$$ for their votes. After they vote for her she will forget all about them again – Just remember how wonderful she was in creating jobs in NY with Amazon??? HaHaHa – Go back to sleep AOC!!!
We can only hope the people in her district vote her out of office next year this young lady is a disgrace to the American political system
Site says my e-mail has been used before, of course it has , it’s been my e-mail for the past three years. Looks like a way to void my vote, no matter we will see what the future brings
Site says my e-mail has been used before, of course it has , it’s been my e-mail for the past three years. Looks like a way to void my vote, no matter we will see what the future brings
She should be convicted of hate speech for her words about the Holocaust and Jewish people’
Bernie trained these four women
Bernie trained these four women
The ones who taught, trained, tutored HER to prepare her for her future obligation to her CREATORS were the same cabal that did the same for “The Puppet”!
The ones who taught, trained, tutored HER to prepare her for her future obligation to her CREATORS were the same cabal that did the same for “The Puppet”!
Too little intellect + too little knowledge + too much fame, + too fast, = Legal Disaster!
Well, no one’s above the law other than libs and RINOs
Yup. And he keeps adding to the tally every year. Why would he pay, no one’s enforcing it on him.
Hay if your concerned about back taxes you should take a look a the fake rev. Al Sharpton he owes over a million dollars and no one seems to care about that.
Hay if your concerned about back taxes you should take a look a the fake rev. Al Sharpton he owes over a million dollars and no one seems to care about that.
Ask the judge also ask Cortez about her back taxes she has not paid from 2017. I thought Polosi said no one is above the law. Or is that just everybody except Democrats who break the law. The truth will come out. A lot of people will not like it who are breaking it intentually.
They are IN America and IN politics for nefarious reasons obvious to every conservative in America! HOPEFULLY it won’t take eight years for the LEFT to realize they’re only PUPPETS to the Anti-America Puppeteers!
They are IN America and IN politics for nefarious reasons obvious to every conservative in America! HOPEFULLY it won’t take eight years for the LEFT to realize they’re only PUPPETS to the Anti-America Puppeteers!
You and the rest of the ‘squad’ must go!
Saying I’m sorry makes one appear weak. Dem apologies are hollow and said in an attempt to avoid being held truly accountable.
Saying I’m sorry makes one appear weak. Dem apologies are hollow and said in an attempt to avoid being held truly accountable.
Aoc is a racistShe doesn’t like jews and she doesn’t like white man so what’s herProblem hasn’t she looked in the mirror
Aoc is a racistShe doesn’t like jews and she doesn’t like white man so what’s herProblem hasn’t she looked in the mirror
The only reason she apologized is cause he is a NY Assemblyman and really a nobody. She should be fined and ordered not to block. She should be sued by everybody that she blocks
OR; A deadgod of violence&revolution!
OR; A deadgod of violence&revolution!
More tears from a totally unrepentant satan worshiper…boo hoo…
The courts didn’t side; it was settled out of court. But they would have sided in favor of Hikind. This is because she is an elected public official using her account to bolster her cause; therefore she cannot silence critics.
Then you would have been ordered to unblock those you had blocked. Remember little one, the dims themselves have set the precedent and now have to live with the consequences.