AOC Wants Judges Impeached For ‘Speaking Oaths’ About Roe .’s Views
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling for a House inquiry into whether two Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn the Roe v. Wade case should be impeached for lying during the hearings. confirm their position on the landmark abortion rights case.
In an interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat and progressive, said she thinks the judges, Neil Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh, was dishonest when discussing Roe at the hearings.
“They lied,” Ocasio-Cortez said in the interview, adding that “there must be consequences for such a deeply destabilizing act and a hostile takeover of our democratic institutions”.
In sparking the specter of impeachment, Ocasio-Cortez drew comments from Senators Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, and Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, both of whom had vote to confirm the judges.
The senators appeared to express doubts about doing so following the court’s ruling against Roe, saying in statements that the judges had indicated during the confirmation that the case was a matter of done.
Neither justice has given a straightforward answer to the verdict against Roe. Justice Kavanaugh refuses direct reply whether the decision is “lawful or not.” At one point, he said the case was “an important Supreme Court precedent that has been reconfirmed many times”.
Justice Gorsuch followed a similar blow. He declined to say how he would rule on Roe, noting that the decision is “a reconfirmed United States Supreme Court precedent.”
“For a judge to start debunking whether they like or dislike this or that precedent sends the wrong signal,” he added. “It will send a signal to the American people that the judge’s personal views have something to do with the judge’s job.”
Ms Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with NBC that Ms Collins and Mr Manchin’s remarks sound like a “very explosive charge” that warrants a House Judiciary Committee investigation as a step forward. impeachment.
“I believe lying is an indisputable offense,” she said.
The House of Representatives can impeach a federal judge by a simple majority. Persuasion in the Senate requires a two-thirds majority. There is only one justice of the Supreme Court, Samuel Chase, was impeached in American history. He was acquitted by the Senate.