Two conservative Supreme Court justices are the targets of articles of impeachment filed by radical Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). The articles were filed on Wednesday by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who charged Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas with “unchecked corruption.”
Last week, the AOC threatened to file articles against the two justices. Democrats have attacked Alito and Thomas on multiple occasions for not endorsing the radical agenda of the party. AOC has been arguing about recent made-up scandals involving Alito’s residence and personal politics, as well as gifts that Thomas has received from wealthy conservatives that have not been disclosed.
“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.”
In her filing from Wednesday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez filed two articles of impeachment against Alito and three against Thomas.
Undisclosed gifts and Thomas’s purported failure to recuse himself from cases involving his wife’s financial and legal interests are the charges leveled against him.
Along with failing to disclose gifts, Alito is accused of failing to recuse himself from cases in which he had “a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party” in front of the court. Democrats, however, have singled out Thomas and Alito in situations where they think the justices will decide against them.
Democrats usually try to portray justices as politicized individuals instead of acknowledging that their job is to fairly decide cases according to their reading of the Constitution. After President Donald Trump’s immunity case was decided by the Supreme Court, the AOC first threatened to file an article of soft impeachment.
According to the relevant ruling, a president is immune from prosecution for “actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority” and is generally presumed to have “presumptive immunity” for official acts. The court ruled that unofficial acts are not immune. The Court did not base its decisions on partisan politics, but rather only on the facts and the intentions of the Founding Fathers.
“The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control,” AOC falsely claimed in a post on X following the decision.
“Today’s ruling represents an assault on American democracy.
“It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture.
“I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.”
