Judicial Reckoning, Ocasio Cortez, takes on Thomas and Alito.

Article 3 of the Constitution, which defines the roles and powers of the court system,

says, quote, the judges both of the Supreme and

inferior courts shall hold their offices during good behavior.

Congresswoman Alexandria Acaseo Cortez is taking the framers at their word.

This week, she introduced articles of impeachment

against both Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

While the Republicans on this court

have engaged in a decades long steady torrent of corruption,

from Robert's wife making over $10 million hustling lawyers into law firms that practice before the court,

to Thomas's multi-million dollar vacations and

mothers rent-free life, Alito's paid speeches and luxury of vacations with

billionaires, gorsiches and Barrett's failty to the fossil fuel industry that his mother and her father served,

and Kavanaugh's alleged gambling debts.

Congress has so far overlooked its obligation to, as Article III Section 2 says, regulate the Supreme Court.

Her impeachment resolution calls out the two most egregious examples, Thomas and Alito,

for failing to disclose gifts from billionaires with issues before the court.

She also nails them both for refusing to recuse themselves from cases where they have obvious conflicts,

like Thomas's wife's participating in January 6th and Alito's flag-waving

support of that effort to end our democracy.

Most recently we've just discovered that billionaire with interest before the court,

Carl and Crow, even paid for the Thomas's to take a luxury all-expenses paid trip to Putin's

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