AOC Challenges Supreme Court’s Legitimacy
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a crazy statement during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the Supreme Court no longer has legitimacy.
This has to do with the abortion pill ruling that was made by a Texas court which would outlaw access to the pills nationwide. Ultimately, this will almost certainly end up in the Supreme Court, which Democrats all want to claim is not legitimate.
AOC argued that the court’s decisions in recent years have been increasingly partisan, with conservative justices consistently ruling in favor of Republican-backed legislation while liberal justices often oppose it. This, she said, undermines public faith in the court and its ability to make impartial rulings.
Finally, AOC argued that if the court continues down this path, it could lead to a constitutional crisis in which citizens lose faith in their government and its institutions. She urged viewers to take action by calling their representatives and demanding change.
Discussing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepting gifts, Ocasio-Cortez said, “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 stay 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.”
Anchor Dana Bash asked, “Should the Justice Department investigate?”
Ocasio-Cortez said, “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. Roberts initiated 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 the and it is the Houses responsibility to pursue that investigation in the form of impeachment.”