AOC vows to file impeachment articles against Supreme Court justices

[Christian Man]

I doubt this will go anywhere, but I think this is a first.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4750034-ocasio-cortez-impeachment-articles-supreme-court-justices-trump-immunity/mlite/?nxs-test=mlite

[#BernieBros4Kamala]

Based!

About time we have a Democrat with some balls.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

Good.

Thomas is flagrantly paid for and Alioto doesn’t even pretend to be impartial

[Hindsight was 2020]

Won’t go anywhere but this is the type of sh*t Dems should do as it keep this corrupt court on people’s minds

[BlueSwan]

Megabased!

[#BernieBros4Kamala]

Won’t go anywhere but this is the type of sh*t Dems should do as it keep this corrupt court on people’s minds

Maybe one of the great trans women of America can donate their balls to Dickless Durbin.

[No War, but the War on Christmas]

I said this from the moment she was elected in 2018, and I still believe and feel it: AOC is one of the few politicians in this country that, both with her intention and also being from my generation, that I feel actually understands our present situation and is fighting for me, and everyone like me.

God Bless her.

[President Johnson]

That has more merit than Republicans trying to impeach Biden or Mayorkas.

[US Medieval Italy Crowned Republic Era]

I said this from the moment she was elected in 2018, and I still believe and feel it: AOC is one of the few politicians in this country that, both with her intention and also being from my generation, that I feel actually understands our present situation and is fighting for me, and everyone like me.

God Bless her.

There have been moments when I haven't been crazy about her, but it really feels like she's growing into the Sanders "serious left-wing fighter who's able to forge alliances when needed" mantle.

[T'Chenka]

GO OFF QUEEN!

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

More like CRT pack, Biden is insisting on two more judges and Alito and Thomas aren't going anywhere we know he can't say CRT pack until Ds win

We should Crt pack Anthony Kennedy fooled us by retiring early to benefit Trump remember and he is still in good health even today there was no reason for him to retire in 2018

It's likely 6/5 Conserv not 7/6 Liberal if we CRT pack

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

That has more merit than Republicans trying to impeach Biden or Mayorkas.

No because they’re democrats, which makes them automatically guilty of treason against the Party country

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

GO OFF QUEEN!

There is no way to impeachment a Justice there will never be 2)3 rds in S to remove it's best to CRT pack. You really think the McConnell S will remove their own Maga judges, NEVER

Notice no one else is saying this

[Pray for Steve]

Won’t go anywhere but this is the type of sh*t Dems should do as it keep this corrupt court on people’s minds

Maybe one of the great trans women of America can donate their balls to Dickless Durbin.

Dick Durbin is one of the best national Democrats.

[Almost Anyone But Biden Or Trump (ABBoT but not Greg Abbott)]

Good, but she should be filing articles of impeachment against Joe Biden as well, if he won't drop out voluntarily.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Good, but she should be filing articles of impeachment against Joe Biden as well, if he won't drop out voluntarily.

Let's not go overboard. Anyway, he can still be the nominee while impeached. Obviously it would look bad of course.

[Almost Anyone But Biden Or Trump (ABBoT but not Greg Abbott)]

Good, but she should be filing articles of impeachment against Joe Biden as well, if he won't drop out voluntarily.

Let's not go overboard. Anyway, he can still ve the nominee while impeached. Obviously it would look bad of course.

Not if he is convicted. Being convicted means he is constitutionally ineligible to be President, and that means he cannot be the nominee. The delegates would have to nominate someone else.

Although the delegates could also just nominate someone else regardless, because the rules of the DNC only require the delegates to vote for Biden "in good conscience." So all they have to do is say they can't vote for him "in good conscience," and they can vote for whoever they want.

The delegates have control to determine the rules of the DNC, so they can simply change the rules if they want also.

[Mr. Reactionary]

[Fuzzy Bear]

This has been tried before.

Then-House Minority Leader, Rep. Gerald Ford (R-MI) filed Articles of Impeachment against Justice William O. Douglas.

1970 impeachment attempt fails

Douglas maintained a busy speaking and publishing schedule to supplement his income. He became severely burdened financially because of a bitter divorce and settlement with his first wife. He sustained additional financial setbacks after divorces and settlements with his second and third wives.[16]

Douglas became president of the Parvin Foundation. His ties to the foundation (which was financed by the sale of the infamous Flamingo Hotel by casino financier and foundation benefactor Albert Parvin) became a prime target for House Minority Leader Gerald Ford. Besides being personally disgusted by Douglas's lifestyle, Ford was also mindful that Douglas's protégé Abe Fortas was forced to resign because of ties to a similar foundation.[60] Fortas would later say that he "resigned to save Douglas," thinking that the dual investigations of himself and Douglas would stop with his resignation.[60]

Some scholars[61][62] have argued that Ford's impeachment attempt was politically motivated. Those who support this contention note Ford's well-known disappointment with the Senate over the failed nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell to succeed Fortas. In April 1970, Ford moved to impeach Douglas in an attempt to hit back at the Senate. House Judiciary Chairman Emanuel Celler handled the case carefully and did not uncover evidence of any criminal conduct by Douglas. Attorney General John N. Mitchell and the Nixon administration worked to gather evidence against him.[63] Ford moved forward with the proceedings.

The hearings began in late April 1970. Ford was the main witness, and attacked Douglas's "liberal opinions", his "defense of the 'filthy' film", the controversial Swedish film I Am Curious (Yellow) (1970), and his ties to Parvin. Douglas was also criticized for accepting $350 for an article he wrote on folk music in the magazine Avant Garde. Its publisher had served a prison sentence for the distribution of another magazine in 1966 that had been deemed obscene by some critics. Describing Douglas's article, Ford stated, "The article itself is not pornographic, although it praises the lusty, lurid, and risqué along with the social protest of left-wing folk singers." Ford also attacked Douglas for publishing an article in Evergreen Review, which he claimed was known to publish photographs of naked women. The Republican congressmen, however, refused to give the majority Democrats copies of the magazines described, prompting Congressman Wayne Hays to remark, "Has anybody read the article – or is everybody over there who has a magazine just looking at the pictures?"[64] As it became clear that the impeachment proceedings would be unsuccessful, they were brought to a close without a public vote.[65]

Truthfully, the moves against Thomas, Alito, etc. are equally baseless.

The United States is not a "Democracy".  It is a REPUBLIC.  The Supreme Court is not a democratic (small "d") institution; it is a republican (small "r") institution designed to provide separation of powers.  Our Enumerated Constitutional Rights are a mere Parchment Guarantee without the Separation of Powers.  The Soviet Constitution of 1936 had a more impressive set of individual rights included in it; they were all a farce because of the concentration of power within the Communist Party in the USSR that made them a mere Parchment Guarantee.

The people who desire to pack the Coiurt with flunkies who meekly back their Legislative proposals do not value their Enumerated Constitutional Rights and will not do so until they're gone and they can't get them back.  

[All Along The Watchtower]

“a republic, not a democracy”

Oh here f—king we go again.

[politicallefty]

I think she's right to do so. My faith in the durability of the Constitution has been irreparably damaged.

[junior chįmp]

Won’t go anywhere but this is the type of sh*t Dems should do as it keep this corrupt court on people’s minds

Maybe one of the great trans women of America can donate their balls to Dickless Durbin.

He gave up years ago

No serious conversation' about packing Supreme Court: Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.

The No. 2 Senate Democrat rejected calls to add justices to the Supreme Court.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/conversation-packing-supreme-court-sen-dick-durbin-ill/story?id=73198246

[Convicted Felon Donald Trump]

It’ll go nowhere but it’s a start.

We need Democrats to be as bold as Republicans, as long as they don’t betray or attack the country like Republicans.

[SWE]

"The US is Republic not a democracy" is a very dumb thing to say in any context but it's particularly funny in the context of defending a SCOTUS that just issued presidential immunity, which the Federalist Papers make very clear that the Framers thought was incompatible with Republicanism

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

I fully support the impeachment of Thomas and Alito.  But I would recommend making this part of the campaign platform to elect a Democratic House in November rather than doing it now when it has no chance to even reach a trial.