Conservative justices should be impeached for lying under oath – Ocasio Cortez

 

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A Democratic Congresswoman has called for the impeachment of conservative justices who lied under oath during their confirmation hearings about whether or not they supported Roe v Wade. 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex (D-N.Y) said Sunday that the justices “misled” Americans during their confirmation and hence should be made to face “consequences” for lying under oath, The Hill reports.

Ocasio-Cortez told NBC’s “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd the Supreme Court “dramatically overreached its authority” and created a “crisis of legitimacy” that President Biden should address, according to The Hill.

“If we allow Supreme Court nominees to lie under oath and secure lifetime appointments to the highest court of the land and then issue — without basis, if you read these opinions — rulings that deeply undermine the human civil rights of the majority of Americans, we must see that through,” the lawmaker said, according to The Hill.

“There must be consequences for such a deeply destabilizing action and the hostile takeover of our democratic institutions,” she added.

On Friday the Supreme led mostly led by Trump appointed justices overturned a 50-year old precedent which gave American women unprecedented access to abortion especially women of reproductive age. The Roe v Wade ruling in 1973 was overturned on a 6-3 vote allowing states to effectively ban the procedure.

According to The Hill, Conservative justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alto, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett were criticized for dodging the question of overturning the precedent during their respective confirmation hearings or saying they would not support overturning the case. 

All five justices voted to overturn Roe v Wade sparking outrage and anger in liberal circles. Several abortion clinics in states that have banned the procedure have either shut their doors or cancelled appointments.

 Ocasio-Cortez noted that lying under oath is an impeachable offense and called for consequence to serve as deterrent to others.

“What makes it particularly dangerous is that it sends a blaring signal to all future nominees that they can now lie to duly elected members of the United States Senate in order to secure a Supreme Court confirmation,” she said, according to The Hill.