WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 19, 2024) – Free Speech For Individuals launched a letter immediately to Home Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan and Rating Member Jerry Nadler, urging them to assist Consultant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s impeachment articles towards Supreme Court docket Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito for abusing their powers to guard and advance their very own private and familial pursuits. Consultant Ocasio-Cortez cited Article II of the U.S. Structure when introducing articles of impeachment in July, arguing that Thomas and Alito’s actions represent “excessive Crimes and Misdemeanors” taken on the expense of the American folks and the judiciary itself.
The Framers of our Structure known as on Congress particularly to carry judicial officers, together with Supreme Court docket justices, accountable for top crimes and misdemeanors that compromise the integrity of the Court docket,” the letter reads. “Given the compelling proof towards Justice Thomas and Justice Alito for repeated transgressions becoming this description, it’s crucial that the Home Judiciary Committee promptly start impeachment proceedings towards them.
Further organizations which have endorsed Consultant Ocasio-Cortez’s articles of impeachment embrace Frequent Protection, Court docket Accountability Motion, Finish Residents United / Let America Vote Motion Fund, Sufficient of Gun Violence, Get Free, Indivisible, MoveOn, NextGen America, Our Revolution, Individuals’s Parity Venture, Individuals Energy United, Public Sensible, Revolving Door Venture, Take Again the Court docket Motion Fund, UltraViolet, Girls’s March, and The Employees Circle.
An April 2023 report from ProPublica discovered that Justice Thomas has accepted and didn’t disclose lots of of 1000’s of {dollars} in presents and different monetary advantages from Harlan Crow, a Republican billionaire and activist whose organizations commonly file briefs within the Supreme Court docket advocating positions that Thomas reliably adopts.
Thomas additionally didn’t recuse himself in instances concerning makes an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election. His spouse, Ginni Thomas, has had a major curiosity within the final result of those challenges. Ginni Thomas was intimately concerned within the Cease the Steal motion, sending quite a few textual content messages to former Trump Chief of Employees Mark Meadows in an try to disregard the outcomes of the November 2020 presidential election and maintain Trump in energy.
Justice Alito displayed an upside-down American flag, a logo of the January sixth revolt and the “Cease the Steal” motion, outdoors his dwelling after the 2020 election. One other Alito property flew an “Enchantment to Heaven” flag, a logo of Christian nationalism, in 2023. Alito has additionally accepted and didn’t disclose presents from conservative benefactors.
Neither Justice Thomas nor Justice Alito recused themselves from instances earlier than the Court docket associated to the 2020 presidential election and to the January sixth revolt, together with the latest unprecedented ruling in Trump v. U.S. that gave the previous president partial immunity for crimes he dedicated whereas serving within the Oval Workplace.
Learn the total letter right here.
See organizations which have endorsed articles of impeachment towards Justice Thomas (H.Res. 1353) and Alito (H.Res 1354) right here.
