The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander’s involvement in a video that she made with five other members of Congress urging military personnel to refuse any “illegal orders” from the Trump administration, her spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.
The Justice Department made an inquiry to her office about it.
“It is sad and telling that simply stating a bedrock principle of American law caused the President of the United States to threaten violence against me, and it is downright dangerous that the Justice Department is targeting me for doing my job,” Goodlander said in a statement. “These threats will not deter, distract, intimidate, or silence me. I will continue doing my job and upholding my oath to our Constitution. And I will never give up the ship.”
Goodlander, who represents New Hampshire’s second district, was an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. In the video, published in November, she said service members swore to “protect and defend” the Constitution.
President Donald Trump responded by accusing Goodlander and others of “seditious behavior, punishable by death.”
Other veterans who participated in the video, including Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, are also being investigated by the Justice Department.
