U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, a federal judge has determined, has agreed to  testify in Brooklyn federal court in a lawsuit brought by a former New York state assemblyman who was blocked from her @AOC Twitter account.

At an evidentiary hearing Thursday, Senior U.S. District Judge Frederic Block of the Eastern District of New York said Ocasio-Cortez should testify before the case, which was filed in July, moves forward. The Daily News reported that Block at the Thursday hearing said “I think she needs to testify here.”

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