AOC introduces articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has introduced articles of impeachment against Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, the conservative Supreme Court Justices.

Her office announced the effort on Wednesday, but it faces an uphill climb in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. For passage, the House must vote to impeach and the Senate must then vote to convict.

The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, has faced criticism for years for both its rulings and what many Democrats argue are ethical problems specifically regarding Thomas and Alito.

The court has issued rulings on several right-wing issues, such as expanding gun rights, restricting access to abortion, rejecting college admissions processes looking at race, and a ruling that former presidents have comprehensive immunity from prosecution for official acts taken while in office.

The immunity ruling was in favor of former President Donald Trump.

Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive Democrat from Queens, New York, has previously said that the immunity ruling “represents an assault on American democracy. It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture.”

On Wednesday, she said in a statement that both Alito and Thomas’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.”

Thomas has faced criticism after it was reported that he didn’t reveal that he accepted travel and accommodation from a rich patron and that his wife, Ginny Thomas, was involved in efforts to overturn the 2020