AOC Shreds Marjorie Greene for Accusing Her of Insurrection

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) strike back at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Friday immediately after Greene accused her of launching an “insurrection” just after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

The court docket handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Wellness Corporation, ruling that abortion is not a constitutionally guarded proper, as a result leaving the subject for states to make a decision. The final decision overturned 49 a long time of precedent.

Not remarkably, passions ran sizzling right after the conclusion. A huge crowd of protestors gathered outside the Supreme Court docket setting up virtually immediately immediately after the ruling was produced public. A single of the demonstrators was Ocasio-Cortez, who together with a crowd, chanted, “Illegitimate!” and “Into the streets!”

Greene tweeted an audio clip of AOC and claimed she “just launched an insurrection.” She added that any subsequent violence “is a immediate result of Democrat marching orders.”

AOC just released an insurrection.

Any violence and rioting is a direct consequence of Democrat marching orders. pic.twitter.com/VvAwMrEePH

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) June 24, 2022

Greene has downplayed the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, in which supporters of Donald Trump stormed the sophisticated in an exertion to overturn the 2020 presidential election effects. She has mocked the claim that what occurred that day constituted an “insurrection.”

AOC took recognize and retweeted a screenshot of Greene’s tweet. “I will make clear this to you bit by bit,” she began.

I will make clear this to you slowly: exercising our correct to protest is not obstruction of Congress nor an endeavor to overturn democracy.

If a single have been a heinous adequate individual to do that, they’d possible request a pardon for it much too.

But only a person of us below has carried out that. And it ain’t me pic.twitter.com/o4889FBFyF

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 24, 2022

Many former Trump officials claimed Greene and other GOP lawmakers sought pardons connected to the Jan. 2021 Capitol assault.

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