Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) followed through on her threat to file articles of impeachment against conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas on Wednesday, accusing them of promoting a “corruption crisis” on the court for failing to disclose gifts and recuse from certain cases.
“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 the American rule of law, the integrity of our democracy, and one of the clearest cases for which the tool of impeachment was designed,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement Wednesday.