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{"id":6726,"date":"2025-02-28T17:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/aoc-wants-answers-from-doj-after-trump-officials-threaten-investigation\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:04:16","slug":"aoc-wants-answers-from-doj-after-trump-officials-threaten-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/aoc-wants-answers-from-doj-after-trump-officials-threaten-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC wants answers from DOJ after Trump officials threaten investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pressing the Justice Department to reveal whether she \u2014 or her office \u2014 is under federal investigation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ocasio-cortez.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/ocasio-cortez.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/lettertodoj.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">In a letter<\/a>to newly confirmed attorney general Pam Bondi, the New York Democrat pointed to recent remarks from border czar Tom Homan, in which he stated that he had asked the acting deputy attorney general, Emil Bove, to investigate Ocasio-Cortez. She had not received any referral from the federal government since then, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI write to request clarity on whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) has yielded to political pressure and attempts to weaponize the agency against elected officials whose speech they disagree with,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez wrote to Bondi. \u201cOver the past two weeks, \u2018Border Czar\u2019 Tom Homan has gone on multiple forums threatening political prosecution against me, citing resources I distributed informing my constituents and the American public of their constitutional and legal rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Ocasio-Cortez had hosted a \u2018Know Your Rights\u2019 webinar, during which she offered guidance for those interfacing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. Ocasio-Cortez argued that her speech was protected by the First Amendment, and Homan\u2019s comments amounted to a threat to her rights.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker is asking for an update from DOJ on the status of the investigation \u2014 if there is one \u2014 by March 5. She copied President Donald Trump on the letter.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><i>Josh Gerstein contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pressing the Justice Department to reveal whether she \u2014 or her office \u2014 is under federal investigation. In a letterto newly confirmed attorney general Pam Bondi, the New York Democrat pointed to recent remarks from border czar Tom Homan, in which he stated that he had asked the acting deputy attorney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}