by Frank Bergman, Slay News:
Radical Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has filed articles of impeachment against two conservative Supreme Court justices.
Ocasio-Cortez filed the articles on Wednesday, accusing Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas of “unchecked corruption.”
AOC threatened to file the articles last week against the two justices.
Democrats have repeatedly targeted Alito and Thomas for refusing to back the party’s radical agenda.
AOC has been raising arguments about undisclosed gifts Thomas has received from wealthy conservatives and recent fabricated controversies involving Alito’s home and personal politics.
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“The unchecked corruption crisis on the Supreme Court has now spiraled into a Constitutional crisis threatening American democracy writ large,” the congresswoman wrote 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.”
“Justice Thomas and Alito’s repeated failure over decades to disclose that they received millions of dollars in gifts from individuals with business before the court is explicitly against the law,” she argued.
“And their refusal to recuse from the specific matters and cases before the court in which their benefactors and spouses are implicated represents nothing less than a constitutional crisis.
“These failures alone would amount to a deep transgression worthy of standard removal in any lower court and would disqualify any nominee to the highest court from confirmation in the first place.
Ocasio-Cortez’s Wednesday filing includes three articles of impeachment against Thomas and two against Alito.
The charges against Thomas involve undisclosed gifts as well as his lack of recusal in cases allegedly involving his wife’s legal and financial interests.
The charges against Alito also include failure to disclose gifts and his lack of recusal in cases in which he had “a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party” before the court.
