Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls for Impeaching Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

BASH: “Justice Clarence Thomas, you want him to be impeached after a new ProPublica report this week revealed that he accepted luxury vacations from a Republican billionaire donator — donor without disclosing them. Thomas is now defending himself. And here’s what he’s saying. He’s saying, ‘Early in my tenure at the court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the court, was not reportable.’ What is your response?”

OCASIO-CORTEZ: “I think that his own statement contradicts — contradicts many of the facts on the ground and also raises, in other ways, even more serious questions. Later on in his statement, he stated that the reason and the Rationale for this exemption was personal hospitality from an old friend. And he said himself in his statement, a friend of 25 years. Justice Thomas has been on the court for 30 years. And so to say what he is admitting in his statement in an attempt to defend himself is that he began this relationship with a billionaire and receiving these sorts of gifts as — after he was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States. I think that that, in and of itself, indicates a very, very serious problem. And then, on top of that, he is now implicating his colleagues. And I do believe that Chief Justice John Roberts must now come forward and state if he allows and is allowing this kind of very serious corruption to happen on this court. I think, you know, when it comes to Justice Thomas’ statement, when he’s talking about his colleagues and when he’s talking about who advised him to break the law, I think we need to know who those people are.”

BASH: 'Should the Justice Department Investigate?'

OCASIO-CORTTEZ: ‘I mean, I believe what we what we’re seeing right now is a breaking of the law and we have to examine what institutions I know that there are calls for. I know that there are calls for Chief Justice to the Chief Justice Roberts to initiate an investigation. I do not think that this court any longer has the legitimacy, especially after the Supreme Court leak last year, which never came to a conclusion because the investigation itself that Chief Justice Roberts started back then. I believe is very discredited by naming a position that has an inherent conflict of interest because it is employed by those justices to pursue that investigation. I believe that... and it is the houses responsibility to pursue that investigation in the form of impeachment.’