AOC: Congress ought to take into account impeachment, subpoenas for Supreme Court justices

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated Sunday that Congress ought to extra aggressively use the instruments at its disposal to analyze Supreme Court justices for potential conflicts of curiosity, together with impeachment and subpoenas.

The remarks from the New York Democrat, a member of the far-left “Squad,” come within the wake of rulings final week by the conservative-led courtroom in opposition to liberal positions like affirmative motion and President Biden’s pupil debt forgiveness.

Her remarks additionally come after it was revealed that some conservative justices accepted lavish items from rich people who argued circumstances earlier than the courtroom. 

“I believe that if Chief Justice [John G.] Roberts [Jr.] will not come before Congress for an investigation voluntarily, I believe that we should be considering subpoenas, we should be considering investigations, we must pass much more binding and stringent ethics guidelines where we see members of the Supreme Court potentially breaking the law, as we saw in the refusal of [Justice] Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from cases implicating his wife and Jan. 6,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez stated on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “There also must be impeachment on the table. We have a broad level of tools to deal with misconduct, overreach and abuse of power.”

She borrowed a phrase from her Democratic colleagues to counsel the excessive courtroom was shedding legitimacy over its rulings.