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By: Carly Matthewson

Former bartender Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has gotten herself into trouble again.

A federal says he wants to hear from AOC about her decision to block some Twitter followers.

“I think she has to testify here,” said Brooklyn Federal Judge Frederic Block. His comments came during a hearing yesterday regarding the lawsuit launched by one-time elected official Dov Hikind, who says he has been blocked from AOC’s Twitter feed.

“Block, after seeing hundreds of pages of tweets entered into evidence, said he believed hearing from the freshman member of Congress was necessary to decide whether to toss the suit or let the case proceed. Ocasio-Cortez boasts a staggering 5.4 million Twitter followers — even without Hikind,” reported the New York Daily News. “The former state Assemblyman took on the media-savvy Ocasio-Cortez when she gave him the Twitter boot in a spat over her description of federal immigration detention centers as “concentration camps.” He griped that AOC was violating his First Amendment rights, citing a recent decision declaring President Trump’s blocking of Twitter trolls was unconstitutional.”

Hikind said in court that he does not “personally send the tweets in his account — one of his staffers handles the “clicking” once he’s taken care of “the wording.” There was also discussion about the difference between AOC’s two Twitter accounts: One government-issued, the other her personal/campaign feed,” the Daily News added. “Lawyers for AOC also noted that Hikind did not live in her Bronx-Queens district, but rather in the Manhattan-Brooklyn area represented by Jerrold Nadler.”

Ocasio-Cortez’s mouth continues to land her in trouble, even with those in her own political party. Most recently, she went public with her opinion that Congress should impeach the president even if it eventually loses them the upcoming elections.

“I personally do not believe in fulfilling my obligations to my job based on polling data,” Ocasio-Cortez said on CNN. “I think we need to do our job and we’ve been elected and sent here by the people of the United States of America to fulfill all of our obligations under the Constitution of the United States.”

“The freshman congresswoman stressed that the polling on impeachment took place before what she described as a “really shattering allegation” that Trump attempted to leverage foreign aid to Ukraine in order to renew an investigation into former Vice President and 2020 frontrunner Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. She also noted that the new revelations about Trump’s contacts with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has “united almost the entire Democratic caucus,” Fox News reported.

“I think the ground has shifted. I don’t believe in making decisions based on polling,” Ocasio-Cortez also told CNN. “I believe in our ability to organize the public, to educate the public, to talk to the public about why not just we as members of Congress much impeach the president but why all people in the United States of America must recognize and understand that need to put our country first before our consideration of reelection. And that goes for members of Congress all the way up to the president of the United States.”

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