New York Democratic Congresswoman and legislative bad ass Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday filed articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices and free vacation enthusiasts Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito citing their persistent corruption, ABC News reports.
AOC noted Thomas’s unreported gifts and his refusal to recuse in cases where he has a clear conflict of interest–like January 6th cases where his wife was communicating with White House staff–as charges. For Alito, Ocasio-Cortez cites his failure to recuse in cases where he has a clear and stated bias as well as his failure to report expensive gifts.
“The unchecked corruption crisis on the Supreme Court has now spiraled into a Constitutional crisis threatening American democracy writ large,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement. “Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito’s pattern of refusal to recuse from consequential matters before the court in which they hold widely documented financial and personal entanglements constitutes a grave threat to American rule of law, the integrity of our democracy, and one of the clearest cases for which the tool of impeachment was designed.”
Updated 8:36 p.m. ET: AOC brings her motion to the floor.
AOC: Lastly, we cannot ignore the most important material consequences of this court's unchecked corruption and its resulting influence, the suffering of the American people… pic.twitter.com/Eyvtz0wv8z
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