AOC demands congressional 'subpoenas' and 'investigations' into alleged Supreme Court corruption

02 July 2023

United States Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) on Sunday demanded that lawmakers on Capitol Hill use all of their oversight authority to probe and stop the suspected corruption inside the Supreme Court.

"What we are seeing now from the overturning of abortion rights to the ruling that discrimination — and frankly stripping the full personhood and dignity of LGBTQ people in the United States — this is, these are the types of rulings that signal a dangerous creep towards authoritarianism and centralization of power in the Court," Ocasio-Cortez said on CNN's State of the Union. "In fact, we have members of the Court themselves with Justice Elena Kagan saying that the Court is beginning to assume the power of a legislature. And right now, whether it is expansion of the Court..."

Host Dana Bash interjected with a pertinent question.

"Congresswoman, I'm sorry to interrupt, but I just wanna — how, how do you do that? How do you, are you proposing a law or a bill?" Bash asked.

"There's several ways," Ocasio-Cortez replied. "First, we have a Senate Judiciary Committee that is beginning the process of investigating the entanglements and conflicts of interest. Just one to two weeks before the student loan ruling, the country learned that Justice Samuel Alito was accepting gifts from billionaires who were lobbying against Supreme Court — that were lobbying before the Supreme Court against student loan forgiveness. Just, you know, just weeks before we learned that, that he was accepting gifts from them and travel and vacations from them before he decided to vote and rule in their favor."

Ocasio-Cortez also stated that "I believe that if Chief Justice Roberts 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, you know, with Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from cases implicating his wife in January 6th. There also must be impeachment on the table. We have a broad level of tools to deal with misconduct, overreach, and abuse of power, and the Supreme Court has not been receiving the adequate oversight necessary in order to preserve their own legitimacy, and in the process they themselves have been destroying the legitimacy of the Court, which is profoundly dangerous for our entire democracy."

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