Ilhan Omar slammed Nancy Mace after Mace filed a resolution to censure her and strip committee assignments over comments about Charlie Kirk. The congressional feud began on September 15 when Mace introduced the measure and claimed Omar smeared Kirk and implied he was to blame for his own murder during an interview with Zetyo Mediasan’s media company. The resolution also said Omar reposted messages on X that disparage Kirk, the conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA. In the interview, Omar criticized Kirk’s rhetoric around guns and Black Americans and also described the killing as mortifying and expressed empathy for the family. Omar wrote on X that Mace is trying to censor her over comments she never said. She said the resolution does not contain a single quote because Mace could not find any. Omar said she has condemned political violence regardless of ideology and framed the move as a false story to help Mace fundraise and boost a run for governor. Mace, in Congress since 2021, launched a bid for South Carolina governor in August. The exchange turned ugly. Mace posted if you celebrate murder maybe Somalia can take you back. Omar replied that there is no correlation between committee assignments and deportation. Mace answered we would love to see you deported back to Somalia next. Omar, who was born in Somalia, fled amid civil war at age eight and immigrated to the United States in the 1990s, according to her congressional biography. Omar replied would love to see you get help you need next. You belong in rehab, not Congress. Mace said she will lead the debate on censure on the evening of September 17. The broader climate is charged. On September 15, Attorney General Pam Bonny said there is free speech and there is hate speech and there is no place for hate speech after what happened to Charlie. Representative Thomas Massie wrote on X that hate speech is a term used by those in power to describe thoughts they do not want spoken and that it is antithetical to the First Amendment. I have been a strong supporter of Thomas Massie from a distance. He is highly intellectual with integrity and conviction and is one of the higher character members of Congress. This is the kind of sideshow that takes up oxygen. I am not picking a side. I think it is beneath either of them. If I had to say someone stepped over the lines in their capacity as an elected official, it would be Omar. She has been outside of normalcy. She should know her place and role with respect to the office and stand as a leader and not a dividing force. The way these exchanges unfold is not how a private business would treat a tragedy. If a family member of a colleague was killed in a private workplace there would be more respect. That is what is odd about how some in public office carry themselves. It is disgraceful in a sense. The American people deserve better than performative censure fights and insult loops. This country needs clarity on policy, on rights, and on the line between speech people dislike and actual threats. What we are seeing here is a spectacle that does not move anyone forward.