AOC files articles of impeachment against conservative Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito over 'corruption'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put distant articles of impeachment for blimpish Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito connected Wednesday. 

The impeachment resolutions for some justices mention 'failure to disclose financial income, gifts and reimbursements, spot interests, liabilities, and transactions, among different information.'

The solution for Thomas besides refers to his 'refusal to recuse from matters' involving his wife's ineligible and financial interests.

The 1 for Alito cites 'refusal to recuse from cases successful which he had a individual bias aliases prejudice concerning a statement successful cases earlier nan court.' 

The resolutions travel amid a shattering of Democratic unity arsenic nan knives travel retired for President Biden aft nan train wreck statement past period wherever he curiously mentioned, 'we yet hit Medicare.' 

Ocasio-Cortez has planted herself firmly down Biden arsenic nan nominee, while different Democrats from much susceptible districts person called connected him to measurement aside.  

'The unchecked corruption situation connected nan Supreme Court has now spiraled into a law situation threatening American populist writ large.'  

The Alito complaint relates to a brace of flags nan justness had hanging extracurricular of his home: an upside-down American emblem and an 'Appeal to Heaven' flag. Alito has said it was his wife's determination to alert nan flags, which person been carried by those who do not judge Joe Biden won nan 2020 election, extracurricular their home. 

'As soon arsenic I saw it, I asked my woman to return it down, but for respective days, she refused,' he said. 

Alito did not recuse himself from 2 Trump-related cases that were pending earlier nan tribunal astatine nan clip of nan emblem reporting. 

The 2nd Alito complaint relates to his narration pinch billionaire Paul Singer, who paid for Alito to spell connected a luxury sportfishing travel to Alaska, according to a ProPublica report. He did not study nan travel connected his yearly disclosure. 

Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving nan billionaire's companies connected aggregate occasions erstwhile they later came earlier nan court.

The Thomas disclosure complaint stems from his now-widely reported narration pinch billionaire Harlan Crow. Thomas accepted lavish gifts - a travel to Bali, a tuition measure for 1 of his relatives, different backstage pitchy and yacht trips. 

ProPublica blew nan lid off Thomas' undisclosed trips. 

The resolutions were co-sponsored by a number of House progressives: 'Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Rashida Talib, D-Mich., Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. and Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y.'