AOC tries to impeach Thomas and Alito

Well, if you can’t beat ’em, impeach ’em.

Seems to be the theme of the Democrats – if they can’t win by the rules, try to change the rules. Disregarding decades of liberal majority on the Supreme Court, the Dems squealed like outraged shoats when the Court became barely conservative-leaning. God knows Roberts and Barrett are hardly what you would call hard-line rightists, but I guess when your viewpoint is somewhat to the left of Karl Marx anything that smacks of centrist probably looks ‘way over that right-hand horizon. Anyhoo,

“Justice Thomas and Alito’s repeated failure over decades to disclose that they received millions of dollars in gifts from individuals with business before the court is explicitly against the law,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement. “And their refusal to recuse from the specific matters and cases before the court in which their benefactors and spouses are implicated represents nothing less than a constitutional crisis.”

Not sure I have ever seen a law mandating recusal for something your spouse says, but I am no lawer. Seems to me the worst defined crime I see is that Thomas may have underpaid taxes according to some interpretations of the law (and may not have according to others.)

“Congress has a legal, moral, and democratic obligation to impeach,” she said.

This is the latest example of House Democrats – led by some of their highest-profile members – prioritizing the Supreme Court in their campaign year messaging. They’ve previously signaled that, if they regain control of the House, they’d use the power of the gavel to investigate alleged ethical lapses by the justices.

Given the current Republican control of the Senate, this is a non-starter.  Probably does show how important downstream elections are, in some ways more than the Presidential ones – these are the folks who pass the laws that directly affect us. If this fails, expect more attempts at court packing in the future.

In a way, this is a big step forward for our buck-toothed bartender bimbo…she actually introduced something for the first time in lo, these many years. Who knows, someday she may actually get a, you know, law or something passed (God forbid.)

Me? Only way I support an inquiry is if they impartially investigate ALL of ’em. I understand there are quite a few trips on some of the liberal justice’s plates paid for by liberal groups in which the justice’s roles were, shall we say, pretty negligible but the trips lasted a long time. Actually, I’d be very happy with an impartial audit of the entire Congress, both Houses. Bet that’d roil some bottom mud. Too many self-made millionaires there ostensibly making a coupla hundred grand a year.

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