Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Set to Testify Next Month in Brooklyn Federal Court in Twitter Blocking Case
The congresswoman was sued in Brooklyn federal court in July over blocking users from her @AOC Twitter account, which has 5.5 million followers.
October 03, 2019 at 01:23 PM
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York. (Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM)
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, is expected to testify in federal court at the beginning of November, according to a Thursday order from U.S. District Senior Judge Frederic Block of the Eastern District of New York.
The congresswoman was sued in Brooklyn federal court in July over blocking users from her @AOC Twitter account, which has 5.5 million followers.
In his suit, former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, D-Brooklyn, said his verified Twitter account had been blocked by Ocasio-Cortez's account because of his vocal support for "Jewish values and Israel." Hikind runs an organization called Americans Against Anti-Semitism.
Ocasio-Cortez has said people are only blocked from her Twitter account for harassment. In response to an August letter from Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute supporting Hikind's case, she said fewer than 20 people are blocked from her Twitter account and none of those people are her constituents. Hikind lives outside her district, according to court documents.
Block decided Ocasio-Cortez should testify during an evidentiary hearing last week.
Attorneys for both sides agreed Thursday that they plan to attend the next hearing, which is scheduled for 11 a.m. Nov. 5 in Brooklyn.
Ocasio-Cortez was elected in 2018 to represent a district spanning the eastern part of the Bronx and parts of north central Queens.
Ocasio-Cortez is represented by Joseph Eric Sandler of Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock and by Allyson Belovin and Robert Stroup of Levy Ratner. Hikind's lawyers are Israel Dov Weinstein and Jacob Zev Weinstein, according to the case docket.
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Ocasio-Cortez Set to Testify in Lawsuit Challenging Blocking of Twitter Follower
The Trump Twitter Case, and Its Implications for Other Public Officials
Trump Asks 2nd Circuit to Rehear Panel Decision That Barred Him From Blocking Twitter Followers
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