Ocasio-Cortez unveils articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas, Alito [View all]
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Source: Courthouse News Service
July 10, 2024
WASHINGTON (CN) — Congressional Democrats on Wednesday fired their latest salvo in their battle against ethical malfeasance at the Supreme Court, as New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez filed articles of impeachment against Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito. Though the move may prove mostly symbolic in the House, which remains in Republican control, it’s the most drastic effort yet to hold the justices to account for what Democrats and many legal experts have long said are flagrant violations of the kind of ethical conduct expected of the nation’s highest court.
“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,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a statement Wednesday.
Both justices have come under scrutiny over the past year or so amid reports that they both failed to disclose gifts and travel paid for by wealthy conservative benefactors including billionaire real estate magnate Harlan Crow and Federalist Society founder Leonard Leo. Thomas and Alito have also resisted calls from lawmakers to recuse themselves from cases involving the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
In articles of impeachment against Thomas, Ocasio-Cortez argued that the justice’s failure to report gifts and hospitality from Crow undermined the impartiality and integrity of the Supreme Court. “His conduct has caused a reasonable person to believe the gifts were offered and accepted in return for being influenced in the performance of an official act and from the same or different sources on a basis so frequent that a reasonable person would believe that he used his public office for his own private gain or for the private gain of his donors,” the New York Democrat wrote.
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WASHINGTON (CN) — Congressional Democrats on Wednesday fired the latest salvo in their battle against ethical malfeasance at the Supreme Court, as New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez filed articles of impeachment against Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Though the move may prove mostly symbolic in the House, which remains in Republican control, it’s the most drastic effort yet to hold the justices to account for what Democrats and many legal experts have long said are flagrant violations of the kind of ethical conduct expected of the nation’s highest court.
“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,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a statement Wednesday.
Both justices have come under scrutiny over the past year or so amid reports that they both failed to disclose gifts and travel paid for by wealthy conservative benefactors including billionaire real estate magnate Harlan Crow and Federalist Society founder Leonard Leo. Thomas and Alito have also resisted calls from lawmakers to recuse themselves from cases involving the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
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