Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said this week that she has not gotten a response from the Department of Justice (DOJ) on the potential investigation into her over a migrant webinar she held in February.
“I asked them, they haven't responded to me, but, you know, once again, I'm fully using the First Amendment to inform people of their constitutional rights. They say a lot of things, but I've written a formal letter and they won't respond,” Ocasio-Cortez told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
She set the deadline for the DOJ to respond by March 5.
The New York Democrat said a potential arrest of a sitting lawmaker "without any actual grounds" would represent a "tremendous sea change and escalation in what this administration is willing to do to bend laws, norms, et cetera, and how a normal functioning democracy works."
In mid-February, President Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan said he asked the DOJ whether Ocasio-Cortez’s Feb. 12 “Know Your Rights” seminar, which she said offered “practical guidance on how to interact with” immigration officials, was impeding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations.
Homan has indicated in multiple news network appearances that Ocasio-Cortez may have violated federal law by hosting the webinar.
“Maybe AOC is going to be in trouble now,” Homan said in a Feb. 13 interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham.
Ocasio-Cortez has defended the webinar, stating her actions are protected by the First Amendment.
She wrote a late February letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, seeking clarity “on whether the Department of Justice has yielded to political pressure and attempts to weaponize the agency against elected officials whose speech they disagree with.”
“It has been 14 days since Mr. Homan first threatened to weaponize your agency, but I have not yet heard any referral from the federal government,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in the Feb. 27 letter. “Homan’s actions undercut core Constitutional rights and further transparency is necessary.”
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