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Tuesday, November 05, 2019

AOC apologizes for blocking former state lawmaker on Twitter amid lawsuit

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has settled a lawsuit with a former Brooklyn assemblyman over the congresswoman blocking him on Twitter.

Dov Hikind, the lawmaker who filed the lawsuit in July, sued the 30-year-old member of Congress, claiming that she violated his First Amendment rights by blocking him. Ocasio-Cortez's Monday apology came a day before she was scheduled to testify in federal court.

“I have reconsidered my decision to block Dov Hikind from my Twitter account,” the freshman representative said in a statement obtained by The New York Post. “Mr. Hikind has a First Amendment right to express his views and should not be blocked for them."

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