{"id":2292506,"date":"2024-07-11T09:29:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T13:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/impeachment-articles-filed-against-clarence-thomas-samuel-alito-as-aocs-fear-of-scotus-takes-over\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T09:31:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T13:31:04","slug":"impeachment-articles-filed-against-clarence-thomas-samuel-alito-as-aocs-fear-of-scotus-takes-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/impeachment-articles-filed-against-clarence-thomas-samuel-alito-as-aocs-fear-of-scotus-takes-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment Articles Filed Against Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito as AOC&#8217;s Fear of SCOTUS Takes Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fimpeachment-articles-filed-against-clarence-thomas-samuel-alito-as-aocs-fear-of-scotus-takes-over%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2292506&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article\u2063 discusses how Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has introduced articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas \u200dand Samuel Alito. Despite the Republican-controlled House\u200c of Representatives, she feels it is important to take a \u200dstand against what she sees as\u2064 corruption \u2064within\u2064 the \u2063Supreme Court. The article \u2064points out the challenges of actually succeeding \u200bin impeaching\u2064 the justices, but acknowledges Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s determination to do what she believes\u200d is\u200d right. The article also touches on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transgender-mania-is-no-1-concern-in-new-poll-showing-culture-wars-are-gop-voters-top-priority\/\" title=\"New poll reveals GOP voters prioritize culture wars, with transgender issues as top concern.\">broader \u200cpolitical landscape<\/a> and the importance of upcoming elections\u200d in the United States.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"> <?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/%20\"><span>C. Douglas Golden<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   July 11, 2024 at 5:01am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Apparently, hell hath no fury like a \u201csquad\u201d member chasing a lost cause.<\/p>\n<p>Having already lost in the battle to keep her fellow squadster and New Yorker Rep. Jamaal Bowman in his seat \u2014 he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jamaal-bowman-responds-massive-loss-makes-situation-look-worse-will-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was defeated<\/a> in lost a Democratic primary last month after plenty of anti-Israel rhetoric on his part \u2014 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is continuing her quixotic battle against Republican-appointed Supreme Court members.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/10\/us-news\/ocasio-cortez-seeks-us-house-impeachment-of-supreme-courts-thomas-alito\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>, AOC\u2019s office announced Wednesday that she had introduced articles of impeachment against Justices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democrats-think-can-run-clarence-thomas-off-supreme-court-watch-video-1991-confirmation-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clarence Thomas<\/a> and Samuel Alito, the current court\u2019s two <a href=\"https:\/\/supremecourthistory.org\/supreme-court-justices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most senior members<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move stands no chance of succeeding in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, mind you, but I guess it\u2019s better to be seen doing something \u2014 anything \u2014 rather than to make sure you\u2019re doing something constructive with your time.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez has been forever threatening the court \u2014 with its 6-3 conservative majority \u2014 with impeachment, the latest time after its July 1 ruling that former President Donald Trump had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/top-house-democrat-issues-troubling-threat-supreme-court-justices-trump-immunity-ruling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some measure of immunity<\/a> for official acts he committed while in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/aoc-sends-impeachment-threat-scotus-immunity-ruling-trump-assault-american-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the congresswoman<\/a> wrote on X in the wake of the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s ruling represents an assault on American democracy,\u201d she wrote. \u201cIt is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s ruling represents an assault on American democracy. It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture.<\/p>\n<p>I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1807814421168710111?\">July 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, Congress is back \u2014 and while the rest of the Democratic Party is consumed with the slow-motion car wreck that\u2019s been President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nancy-pelosi-raises-eyebrows-earth-shaking-comments-biden-dropping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a> candidacy after the June 27 debate debacle, AOC wants to pivot to impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the congresswoman claimed the two justices\u2019 \u201cpattern of refusal to recuse from consequential matters before the court in which they hold widely documented financial and personal entanglements constitutes a grave threat to American rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, of course, has faced criticism from the left for failure to disclose his decision to accept travel and accommodations from a wealthy friend and his wife\u2019s beliefs about the outcome of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Alito, meanwhile, has faced criticism for something even dumber: How his wife <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-john-bolton-unload-cnns-wolf-blitzer-alitos-display-revolutionary-war-flags\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flies flags outside their homes<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.co.nz\/2024\/07\/11\/mil-osi-usa-transcript-rep-aoc-delivers-major-floor-speech-on-articles-of-impeachment-against-justices-thomas-and-alito\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speech<\/a> on the House floor Wednesday, AOC said that \u201ctraditional standards require justices to recuse themselves in any proceeding where their impartiality might reasonably be questioned. In other words, if a person could reasonably believe that the legitimacy of a justice\u2019s judgment could be or be perceived to be compromised, due to their personal involvement in the case or its parties, the standard is clear. The justice must recuse. They are required to recuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, you know \u2014 if she can get a simple majority of representatives to impeach two justices (which she does not have), maybe she would get two-thirds of senators to convict (which she definitely does not have), and then she could get two Democratic justices appointed (which will not happen).<\/p>\n<p>Then the Supreme Court would be \u201cworking again,\u201d Democrats would say. Which is to say, it would be functioning as a separate legislative body that issues uniformly liberal decisions. Until then, AOC, the Democratic Party and the progressive left will be living in fear of a court that actually interprets the Constitution as it\u2019s written.<\/p>\n<p>And, actually, she knows removal is impossible, as well \u2014 and said as much at the end of her three-and-a-half minute oration on the House floor in which she tried to gussy up this nonsense as Very Serious Stuff\u2122:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Corruption, without consequence, infects all it touches. Congress must exercise its powers to impeach.<\/p>\n<p>The corruption of Justices Thomas &#038; Alito constitutes a clear danger to our democracy. I moved to impeach them because it is the right thing to do for the American people. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eOscx9avE1\">pic.twitter.com\/eOscx9avE1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAOC\/status\/1811251753435754564?\">July 11, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI am here today presenting these articles of impeachment, not because I am a Democrat, and not because I am blind to its odds in a Republican-led chamber,\u201d AOC said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI present them because it is the right thing to do. And while our Framers perhaps may not have envisioned someone like me, in this seat, they absolutely did envision the necessity and value of the impeachment action upon which I seek to advance today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oh. So the \u201cright thing to do\u201d is to waste Congress\u2019 time with your own petty grievances, in other words.<\/p>\n<p>AOC, proudly doing the right thing since 2019, will apparently continue to do it as long as members of her deep-blue New York City constituency keep sending her back to Congress after Congress.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>I heard a chilling comment the other day: \u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>That wasn\u2019t said by a conspiracy theorist or a doomsday prophet. No, former U.S. national security advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said that to the founder of The Western Journal, Floyd Brown.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Gen. Flynn\u2019s warning means that the 2024 election is the most important election for every single living American. If we lose this one to the wealthy elites who hate us, hate God, and hate what America stands for, we can only assume that 248 years of American history and the values we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-trump-legal-team-demands-senate-dismiss-impeachment-article-on-eve-of-trial\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Trump Legal Team Demands Senate Dismiss Impeachment Article On Eve Of Trial\">hold dear<\/a> to our hearts may soon vanish.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The end game is here, and as Benjamin Franklin said, \u201cWe must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>All of this means that <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>without you<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, it\u2019s over. 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It may not seem like much, but a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Western Journal Membership<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  can make all the difference in the world because when you support us directly, you cut Big Tech out of the picture. They lose control. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>A monthly Western Journal Membership costs less than one coffee and breakfast sandwich each month, and it gets you access to ALL of our content \u2014 news, commentary, and premium articles. You\u2019ll experience a radically reduced number of ads, and most importantly you will be vitally supporting the fight for America\u2019s soul in 2024.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We are literally counting on you because without our members, The Western Journal would cease to exist. Will you <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>join us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  in the fight? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Sincerely,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Josh Manning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Deputy Managing Editor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Western Journal<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/body><\/html><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary by C. Douglas Golden on July 11, 2024 at 5:01am discusses Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s introduction of articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Despite the slim chance of success in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, AOC continues to push for impeachment as a way to combat what she sees as corruption within the Supreme Court. 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