AOC Is Showing Democrats How to Talk About the Supreme Court

Earlier this week, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to bless Donald Trump with absolute immunity for his recent attempts to overthrow the government, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced formal articles of impeachment against two members of the majority: Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. Their intertwined patterns of professional misconduct and conflicts of interest, Ocasio-Cortez said, pose a “grave threat” to the rule of law, and are “one of the clearest cases for which the tool of impeachment was designed.” In Democratic politician-adjusted terms, hers is a startlingly unusual position: that people who have power can use it to hold corrupt officials accountable.

“It is incumbent upon Congress to contain the threat this poses to our democracy,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Congress has a legal, moral, and democratic obligation to impeach.”