Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., introduced a motion on Monday to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., over comments she made about Charlie Kirk, seeking to add her House colleague to the growing list of people professionally punished for their speech in the wake of the conservative commentator’s killing last week.

Omar’s office said Tuesday that the measure was an example of Republican hypocrisy over the concept of free speech.

“Congresswoman Omar was one of the first to condemn Charlie Kirk’s murder. She explicitly expressed her sympathies and prayers to his wife and children. She condemned his assassination and has routinely condemned political violence, no matter the political ideology,” a spokesperson from Omar’s office said in a statement to The Intercept.

In an interview with Zeteo last week, Omar addressed remembrances of Kirk that she viewed as sanitizing his overtly bigoted stances and lending undue credulity to his political intent. She also said the news of his killing was “mortifying” and that her heart broke for his children.

“There are a lot of people who are out there talking about him [Kirk] just wanting to have a civil debate,” Omar told Zeteo’s Medhi Hasan. Missing from those arguments, Omar said, was an acknowledgment of the well-documented views Kirk espoused.

“Charlie was someone who once said........

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