Democratic leaders discussed restraining order for Ocasio-Cortez against Greene

The Hill ^ | 05/25/21 02:31 PM EDT | BY DOMINICK MASTRANGELO

[RandFan]

House Democratic leadership discussed the legality and logistics of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) filing a restraining order against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after the Republican has verbally attacked the progressive lawmaker, and likened COVID-19 restrictions to the Holocaust.

Top Democrats have reportedly floated a potential restraining order for Ocasio-Cortez against Greene, sources told Politico, noting the Democrat would likely have to seek the order out herself.

Greene first confronted Ocasio-Cortez before she was elected to Congress last year as a conservative activist. Earlier this month, after Greene shouted “Hey, Alexandria” multiple times outside the House chamber, Greene pressed the progressive lawmaker to explain why she supports Black Lives Matter and people she called antifa "terrorists."

Ocasio-Cortez, who worked as a bartender before she was elected to Congress, responded by telling reporters that Greene represents the "kinds of people that I threw out of bars all the time."

“For me, this isn't even about how I feel. It's that I refuse to allow young women, people of color, people who are standing up for what they believe, to see this kind of intimidation attempts by a person who supports white supremacists in our nation’s Capitol,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

Greene sparked controversy again over the weekend when she compared the House floor mask policy to the Holocaust. She also slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), calling her "mentally ill" on Saturday.

“You know, we can look back at a time in history when people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany. And this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about,” Greene said.

On Tuesday morning, House GOP leadership condemned her remarks.

“Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks is appalling. The Holocaust is the greatest atrocity committed in history. The fact that this needs to be stated today is deeply troubling,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said in a statement Tuesday.

A spokesperson for House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) said: “He does not agree with these comments and condemns these comparisons to the Holocaust. We also need to be speaking out strongly against the dangerous anti-Semitism that is growing in our streets and in the Democrat party, resulting in an alarming number of horrific violent attacks against Jews.”

After congressional leaders in both parties condemned her comments Tuesday, Greene said she was "sorry some of my words make people uncomfortable," adding, "this is what the American left is all about."

House Democrats have been discussing several strategies they can use to rebuke Greene, Politico reported, including an investigation through the House Ethics Committee. On Tuesday reports surfaced that Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) was drafting a resolution to censure Greene.

In January, Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) announced she was moving her office on Capitol Hill away from Greene's out of fear for her personal safety and that of her staff.

“A maskless Marjorie Taylor Greene & her staff berated me in a hallway. She targeted me & others on social media,” Bush said at the time. “I'm moving my office away from hers for my team's safety.”

[No_Mas_Obama]

Hahaha good as usual it’s the Rats who are afraid of the Patriots.

[Political Junkie Too]

A restraining order would be unconstitutional under the privileges and immunities clause.

Article I Section 6

They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

Unless someone wants to make the claim that saying mean things about another Congressman is a "breach of the peace," a restraining order would be unenforceable to keep one Congressman away from another at the Capitol building. It would only apply if Greene were to run into Ocasio-Cortez at some bar or restaurant after hours.

-PJ

[mikey_hates_everything]

Get in their faces…but if they get in your’s, get a restraining order.

[clearcarbon]

Fighting fire with fire.

[Impala64ssa]

I thought AOC was this badass “tough grrrrl” from daBronx. More like a little girl with a big mouth.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

McCarthy the WEAK is wrong about Greene’s comments on the Holocaust because it is PRECISELY a lack of action against the Fascists in Germany making Jews a specific, identifiable target for official/unofficial hatred and attacks, that led to Kristalnacht/pogroms and roundups which followed because they were forced to were a Yellow Jewish Stars on their clothes to mark them for eventual extermination. (Several of my late friends had to do that, often before they were shipped to Auschwitz or Dachau).

The Soviets also forced Jewish Russians and others to have the word JEW (JUDE) stamped across their internal travel passports, among other things. Many of them ended up in the gulags and slave labor camps from the Arctic (Vorkuta etc - John Noble’s story is a good one to read), to the trans-Siberian railway slave labor camps from Potma to Lake Baikal and all points in-between.

Fascist/Marxist hate has to start somewhere and AOC and her band of anti-Semitic Marxists/fascists/racists have long ago passed it, aided and abetted by Nancy (My father had mafia connections in Baltimore) Pelosi to KAPO in Chief of the leftist Jews in the Senate/House, Herr Chucky Schumer, the Gauleiter from New York.

[cranked]

I am of the opinion that Greene would literally stomp AOC into a mudhole if given half a chance.....lulz

[Jess Kitting]

Greene needs to do a parody of AOC’s signature legislation and call it the “Greene New Deal.”

[Candor7]

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) :

“A maskless Marjorie Taylor Greene & her staff berated me in a hallway. She targeted me & others on social media,” Bush said at the time. “I’m moving my office away from hers for my team’s safety.”

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Buahahahahahahaha!

These Dems can’t take the very crap they are handing out.

Greene is effective against them, so they now begin a ‘cancel Greene’ campaign.

ATTA GO GREENE!

STICK TO YOUR GUNS.

Horror of Horrors: “ Greene is maskless!”

What a collective of Dem pearl clutching rubes!

Greene is now in their heads like President Trump was. We need to clone Greene!

[Turbo Pig]

A restraining order would be unconstitutional under the privileges and immunities clause

You say that like it would make one whit of difference to the socialist/globalists.

[KobraKai]

Haha, nice one.

[chief lee runamok]

Fanatic liberals are sickly devious, terrified of their own shadow.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

But it's perfectly fine for leftist lunatics to corner, browbeat and intimidate weak-kneed republicans...

[PGalt]

AOCray Cray can eat an apple thru a chain link fence.

https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/173847808/AOC-DONKEY

[pnz1]

I thought AOC was a tough New Yorker?

[sauropod]

Hmmm... AOC and Cori Bush clutching their pearls. Who’da thunk it?

Kevin McCarthy and Scalise are useless tools and they have no problem throwing MTG under the bus. They are scum.

[Durbin]

Maybe AOC will talk to her shrink about it like she’s doing for her PTSD from the Capitol “riots” that she wasn’t even a part of.