Ocasio-Cortez files impeachment articles against Supreme Court Justices Thomas, Alito

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday introduced articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, citing their “pattern of refusal to recuse” themselves from matters to which they are connected and their “failure to disclose” millions of dollars in gifts over decades.

"The unchecked corruption crisis on the Supreme Court has now spiraled into a Constitutional crisis threatening American democracy writ large,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a press release announcing the impeachment articles.

“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,” she continued.

Both impeachment resolutions include an article citing Thomas’s and Alito’s “failure to disclose financial income, gifts and reimbursements, property interests, liabilities, and transactions, among other information.”

The impeachment resolution against Thomas includes two articles related to his “ Read Entire Article