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Hi,
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have spent years on the Supreme Court taking millions of dollars in undisclosed gifts from billionaires in violation of federal law.1
Meanwhile, they’ve helped usher in a radical right-wing agenda to ban abortion, gut the Voting Rights Act, and make Donald Trump immune from criminal prosecution for crimes he committed in the White House.
But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just filed articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito — and we need to help build support for her effort.2
We've already mobilized tens of thousands of people to contact Congress and demand a vote on AOC's articles of impeachment. Now, with your help, we’re turning up the heat.
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have violated basic standards of judicial ethics again and again.
Thomas has taken at least $4 million in gifts from right-wing billionaire Harlan Crow during his time on the Supreme Court, including dozens of private jet flights, super-yacht trips, and helicopter rides to vacation destinations around the world.3 Crow also paid the private school tuition for Thomas’s grandnephew and bought the house where Thomas’s mother lives rent-free.4
Alito’s corruption is nearly as shameless. In 2008, he took a luxury vacation to Alaska worth over $100,000 paid for by Republican megadonor Paul Singer – and then refused to recuse himself in at least 10 cases in which Singer came before the court, including one that netted Singer $2.4 billion.5
Alito also personally owned stock in 17 companies that stood to gain almost $30 billion in tax refunds under a case theSupreme Court decided last term, and he again refused to recuse himself.6
Thomas and Alito have richly rewarded their right-wing billionaire friends by pushing a radical right-wing agenda to ban abortion, gut the Voting Rights Act, toss out state and local gun safety laws, insulate Donald Trump from criminal prosecution, and cripple federal agencies in charge of protecting the environment, consumers, and public health.
But finally, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is taking action to hold them accountable.
Demand Progress Action has worked for years to restrain the radical right-wing takeover of the Supreme Court, and now we’re pushing to support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s effort to impeach Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
With gratitude,
The team at Demand Progress Action
Sources:
1. ProPublica, "Friends of the Court," accessed August 23, 2024.
2. Rolling Stone, "AOC Files Articles of Impeachment Against Thomas and Alito," July 10, 2024.
3. Fix the Court, "A Staggering Tally: Supreme Court Justices Accepted Hundreds of Gifts Worth Millions of Dollars," June 6, 2024.
4. ProPublica, "Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition.," July 12, 2024.
5. ProPublica, "Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court," June 20, 2023.
6. The Lever, "Justices Have Financial Interest In Major Tax Case," September 27, 2023.
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