AOC calls for impeachment of Supreme Court Justices Thomas, Alito

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(Reuters) - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has introduced articles of impeachment against conservative Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, her office said in a statement on Wednesday.

The effort stands no chance of advancing in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives. To remove an official through this process, the House must vote to impeach and the Senate then must vote to convict.

Democrats for years have criticized the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, over rulings that advanced causes popular on the right. These have included rolling back abortion rights, expanding gun rights, rejecting race-conscious collegiate admissions and ruling that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution for official acts in office in a decision favoring Donald Trump.

Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement that Thomas and 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."