As the Washington Examiner's Andrew Kerr reports, "Getting arrested was the whole point of the stunt, Ocasio-Cortez said in an Instagram post on Tuesday. She said organizers of the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) Action Fund asked her and her colleagues to "submit themselves for arrest in front of the Supreme Court.""

According to AOC, what they did was "very different than a 'publicity stunt'" without elaborating.Approximately 30 minutes before lawmakers arrived at the USSC, Omar spokesman Jeremy Slevin said the quiet part out loud - tweeting "Members of Congress, including [Omar] will be participating in a civil disobedience at the Supreme Court, potentially including arrests, shortly."