An extreme response even for liberals…
On Monday, progressive New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) vowed to file articles of impeachment in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity.
“Today’s ruling represents an assault on American democracy. It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture,” she wrote on the social platform X. “I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.”
She did not specify which, or how many, of the justices she would target.
In a partial victory for Donald Trump, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a 6-3 vote that presidents have absolute immunity for “official acts” taken while president.
The Supreme Court did not define what constitutes an “official” action, leaving that distinction to the discretion of a lower court.
The Hill noted that fueling the Democrats’ attacks, two of the conservative justices on the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, both have connections to Trump’s “Stop the Steal” movement. Critics say that, as a result, both should recuse themselves from any cases related to Jan. 6 – an entreaty they have refused.
Ocasio-Cortez, in announcing her impeachment articles, alluded to those connections, suggesting that justices who won’t police themselves demand that Congress step in to fill the void.
“The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control,” she wrote Monday.
Impeaching a Supreme Court Justice would be an uphill climb as the only Supreme Court Justice to ever be impeached was Associate Justice Samuel Chase in 1804, and he was later acquitted in the Senate the following year.
