www.msn.com by Aila Slisco
Articles of impeachment have been filed against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in the U.S. House just one day after two senators pushed for a federal criminal investigation of Thomas, alleging ethics violations.
Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced on Wednesday that she had introduced articles of impeachment for Thomas and fellow conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, accusing both of failing to disclose gifts and reimbursements and refusing to recuse themselves in cases in which they had conflicts of interest.
“Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito’s pattern 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, the integrity of our democracy, and one of the clearest cases for which the tool of impeachment was designed,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement.
“Justice Thomas and Alito’s repeated failure over decades to disclose that they received millions of dollars in gifts from individuals with business before the court is explicitly against the law,” she added. “Congress has a legal, moral, and democratic obligation to impeach.”
Newsweek reached out for comment to a Supreme Court spokesperson via email on Wednesday.
The impeachment resolution against Thomas specifically accuses him of “failure to disclose financial income, gifts and reimbursements, property interests, liabilities, and transactions, among other information.”
Thomas, 76, the oldest and longest-serving Supreme Court justice, is also accused of “failure to recuse himself” in cases involving the financial or legal interests of his wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas…
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