John — I'm re-sending this important email to make sure you didn't miss it. — Robert Reich

Dear John,

Friends, I’ve been in and around politics for over 60 years, and Donald Trump is the greatest threat to American democracy that I’ve seen in my lifetime.

But right behind Trump is the current right-wing supermajority on the Supreme Court.

Time and again, this Supreme Court has reversed lower-court rulings and their own established precedents to rubber-stamp Trump’s lawless executive actions.

They handed Trump sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution. They allowed him to dismantle entire federal agencies established by acts of Congress. They signed off on deporting legal U.S. residents based on their political speech with zero due process.

Meanwhile, some of these same justices have been taking millions of dollars in gifts, payouts, and sweetheart deals from right-wing billionaires.

The most shamelessly corrupt justices have been Samuel Alito and my former Yale Law School classmate, Clarence Thomas. That’s not just my opinion: Last year, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced formal articles of impeachment against Justices Alito and Thomas.

Now it’s time to turn up the heat and demand the impeachment of Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.

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When Trump started dismantling huge swaths of the federal government and firing independent agency heads in defiance of laws duly passed by Congress, the Supreme Court said it was just fine.

When Trump started deporting immigrants without due process, the Supreme Court overruled the lower courts’ efforts to stop him.

And when ICE started flagrantly violating the Fourth Amendment by racially profiling people in Los Angeles, the Supreme Court threw out decades of legal doctrine in an unsigned, unexplained shadow docket order allowing ICE to continue violating people’s civil rights.

I could go on and on with similar examples. But the bottom line is clear: Donald Trump is on an authoritarian rampage, and the Supreme Court has enabled him nearly every step of the way.

At the same time, Justice Thomas has raked in over $4 million in gifts from right-wing billionaires, including flights on private jets, super-yacht trips, and stays at luxury resorts funded by right-wing billionaire Harlan Crow.

Justice Alito has been just as shameless, taking a luxury vacation to Alaska worth over $100,000, paid for by Republican mega-donor Paul Singer, and then refusing to recuse himself from at least ten cases in which Singer had a financial interest.

An honest, independent judiciary is absolutely vital to any functioning democracy. The one way our Constitution allows Supreme Court justices to be held accountable is through impeachment.

Inequality Media Civic Action has been leading the charge for Supreme Court reform for years with viral explainer videos warning about the threat that these corrupt and radical right-wing justices pose to our democracy. Now we’re ramping up our efforts — before we no longer have a democracy left to save.