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SUPREME COURT IMPEACHMENT FILINGS: THOMAS AND ALITO NBC News: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez files impeachment articles against Justices Thomas and Alito PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H1R_qtPiVY Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez files impeachment articles against Justices Thomas and Alito NBC News Jul 10, 2024 10.2M subscribers ... 79,415 views ... 4.2K likes #AOC #SupremeCourt #Impeachment Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., introduced articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito for demonstrating a 'years-long pattern of misconduct and failure to recuse in cases bearing their clear personal and financial involvement.' Ocasio-Cortez adds that this represents an abuse of power and threat to our democracy. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. 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Financial incomes gifts reimbursements property interests among other information Mr Speaker 1:00 nomination and appointment to the Supreme Court is one of the highest Privileges and most consequential responsibilities of our nation such an appointment is uniquely insulated in its power confirmation to the court is a lifetime appointment whereby justices are entrusted with decisions that powerfully shape the nation as well as the lives of every American for this reason and others the Constitution rightfully and explicitly holds justices to even higher standards than members of Congress or even the president section one of article three of the Constitution commands Federal justices to hold their offices during good behavior in addition to its Clauses barring treason bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors and Congress has exercised its power to reinfor enforced this 2:00 higher standard of the Judiciary before this body has impeached and removed eight federal judges for transgressions ra ranging from evading income tax and perjury to intoxication on the bench and abandoning the office to join the Confederacy perhaps most critical to the 2:21 legitimacy of the institution these 2:24 judicial standards require justices to 2:26 recuse themselves in any proceeding 2:29 where impartiality might reasonably be 2:33 questioned in other words if a person 2:36 could reasonably believe that the 2:38 legitimacy of a Justice's judgment could 2:41 be or be perceived to be compromised due 2:44 to their personal involvement in the 2:46 case or its parties the standard is clear the Justice must recuse they are required to recuse that stringent and sacred standard exists for the good of the 3:01 ruling the Judiciary and the country Mr Speaker I believe that everyday Americans independent of party or ideology can reasonably conclude that justices Thomas and alito's yearslong pattern of misconduct and failure to recuse in cases bearing their clear 3:23 personal and financial involvement 3:25 represents an abuse of power and threat 3:28 to our democracy fundament mentally 3:30 incompatible with continued service on 3:32 our nation's highest 3:35 court for the good of the institution 3:37 and the nation absent 3:40 resignation they must be 3:43 removed the proof is 3:45 undeniable and here I will lay it out Justice Clarence Thomas for decades now has carried on a close financially entangled personal relationship with real estate billionaire harlon Crow 4:01 it is of material importance to the American people to note that Justice Thomas's relationship to the billionaire only began after Thomas's powerful appointment to our nation's highest court the cash goods and services Justice Thomas received over the years include large loan balance cancellations tuition payments for family and vacations in private jets and Yachts worth up to half a million dollar alone in Total Justice Thomas appears to 4:33 have received more than $1.5 Million 4:36 worth in Goods cash equivalents and 4:38 services from Mr Crow and that is just 4:42 what we know 4:43 of but truthfully we won't ever really 4:46 know the total sum of contributions Thomas received from Crow just as Thomas not only accepted these contributions while Mr Crow had business in front of the court but he accept Ed them in 5:00 secret failing for years and years to report them yet Thomas did report smaller gifts during this time demonstrating a clear understanding of his legal obligation to report would a reasonable American question that receiving lavish gifts 5:20 from Mr Crow might lead Justice Thomas 5:23 to have a bias towards his quote friend 5:25 with business before the C Court without 5:29 a doubt 5:31 yes but did Justice Thomas 5:34 recuse 5:36 no now take justice Samuel Alo who has 5:40 no shortage of billionaire Associates of 5:42 his own after billionaire Paul singer 5:46 gave Justice Alo a luxury fishing trip on a private jet a contribution that was also hidden from the public and the Court Justice Alo not only refused to recuse but changed his mind regarding 6:00 his gracious host's case just a short time after accepting the lavish undisclosed trip from singer Alo joined the court in reversing its previous position and took up singer's case he did not recuse Justice Alo also refused to recuse in in the case itself ultimately leading to a ruling that netted singer $2.4 billion and that ruling did not just enrich singer it also structurally 6:33 tilted the playing field further away 6:35 from working people and towards the 6:37 vulture funds siphoning money and 6:40 resources away from the communities that 6:42 need them most could a reasonable 6:45 American question whether or not Justice 6:48 Alo could have acted impartially in this case given his personal relationship with singer absolutely in January 21 after the 7:01 former president of the United States incited an Insurrection on the capital in this chamber to interfere with the results of the US election Justice Samuel Alo and his wife flew an upside down American flag a symbol of solidarity with the attack outside their home two years later they publicly displayed outside their home yet another 7:26 incendiary symbol a flag associated with 7:29 extreme right-wing Christian 7:32 nationalism Justice Alo maintains that 7:34 his wife Martha Anne Alo is the only one 7:38 responsible for the 7:39 flags but Common Sense maintains that 7:43 such a close and incendiary Revelation 7:46 requires recusal by the Justice from 7:49 January 6 related cases despite the overwhelming appearance of a conflict of interest Justice Alo refused to recuse himself from cases surrounding the 2020 election 8:02 and questions of the former president's legal immunity in the attack would a reasonable person question that Justice alito's conduct exhibits and demonstrates reasonable concern for bias in these cases absolutely and without question and finally Justice Thomas who is married to Virginia Thomas a financially and personally involved operative in the stop the steel movement and capital attack also joined opinions in these cases even as clear evidence mounted that Not only was his wife fully committed to overthrowing the results of of a fair election but she was actively lobbying members of the Trump Administration attempting to do just 9:00 that the questions before the court had unquestionable implications for Thomas's wife and consequently Thomas himself making his refusal to recuse one of the most shocking examples of conflict of interest in the Court's history and crucially it was both justices Thomas and Alo who cast critical votes in the ruling it now now follows that because of alos and Thomas' refusals to recuse everyday Americans canot should not and will not believe that these justices and consequently the court they serve is working to uphold the Constitution and put the country ahead of their own individual self-interests Americans will not believe that the court interpreted the law independent of profit for themselves 10:00 and their newly termed friends without action against these blatant violations reasonable Americans have and will continue to lose faith in the court itself reasonable Americans will and do believe that justices Thomas and Alo are prone and subject to corruption that the institution failing to punish them is broken and that consequently their impeachment is a constitutional imperative and our Congressional Duty the abuses of power committed by Justice Thomas And Justice Alo are precisely the types of corruption that the framers understood was an existential threat to our democracy instances like these and misconduct like that of alos and Thomases are precisely why the framers gave us the tool of 11:00 impeachment corruption without consequence infects all it touches and that is why this body Congress has a constitutional and moral obligation to hold these justices accountable to maintain the Integrity of our courts and to uphold the standards of the Judiciary and our institutions lastly we cannot ignore the most important material consequences of this Court's unchecked corruption and its resulting influence the suffering of the American people we cannot ignore and pretend that this corruption is wholly unrelated to the millions of pregnant Americans s now suffering and bleeding out in emergency rooms under the courts unleashing of extreme abortion bans across the United States which was a key political priority of these undisclosed 12:01 benefactors and Shadow organizations surrounding Alo and Thomas' misconduct nor can we ignore the millions of Americans now suffering hours long wait times in the hot sun often without water just to cast a ballot also a direct result of this corrupt Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act allowing the closing of polling sites across the country you see neither these justices nor their shadowy benefactors have to answer to the parents of developmentally delayed children about their decision to gut the power of the EPA and the entire administrative state with it but they do have to answer to us the Congress whom these people the American people have elected and entrusted to protect them to serve them and to defend the well-being of our 13:03 democracy Mr Speaker I 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 I 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 thanks for watching stay updated about breaking news and top stories on the NBC News app or follow us on social media

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