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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Published July 2, 2023 12:36pm EDT

AOC proposes subpoenas and

impeachment to limit SCOTUS
justices’ power following landmark
decisions
Democrats have called the Supreme Court 'illegitimate' following landmark rulings this past week

By Haley Chi-Sing | Fox News

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Democratic "Squad" member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez D-N.Y., slammed the U.S. ,

Supreme Court for what she called an "abuse of power" Sunday, following landmark
decisions this past week rejecting affirmative action and Biden's student loan debt plan.
She proposed impeachment and subpoenas be put into play in order to limit the justices'
power.

"The Supreme Court is far overreaching their authority," Ocasio-Cortez said on CNN's
"State of the Union."

"And I believe, frankly, that we really need to be having conversations about judicial review
as a check on the courts as well," she added.

The Supreme Court issued the last decisions of its term this past week, among them
rejecting the use of race as a factor in admissions, ruling in favor of a Christian web
designer who refuses to make a same-sex wedding websites, and striking down President
Biden’s student loan debt cancellation plan. Democrats have considered the rulings to be
attacks on the left, denouncing the court as "illegitimate."

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Dem Squad member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed the U.S. Supreme Court and its "abuse of power" Sunday. (Alex
Wong/Getty Images | Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

"These are the types of rulings that signal a dangerous creep toward authoritarianism and
centralization of power in the courts," Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday. "In fact, we have
members of the court themselves with Justice Elena Kagan saying that the court is
beginning to assume the power of a legislature."

Ocasio-Cortez has been a vocal proponent for court-packing and limiting the court's
power, going as far as to tell CNN's Dana Bash that subpoenas and impeachment should
be placed on the table for consideration.

"And so I believe that if Chief Justice Roberts will not come before Congress for an
investigation voluntarily, I believe that we should be considering subpoenas," the Democrat
representative said. "We should be considering investigations. We must pass much more
binding and stringent ethics guidelines where we see members of the Supreme Court
potentially breaking the law, as we saw in the refusal with Clarence Thomas to recuse
himself from cases implicating his wife in Jan. 6."

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"There also must be impeachment on the table. We have a broad level of tools to deal with
misconduct, overreach and abuse of power, and the Supreme Court has not been receiving
the adequate oversight necessary in order to preserve their own legitimacy," she
continued. "And in the process, they themselves have been destroying the legitimacy of
the court, which is profoundly dangerous for our entire democracy."

President Biden recently clarified his position against expanding the Supreme Court during an interview on MSNBC on
Thursday. (Screenshot/MSNBC)

Unlike Ocasio-Cortez, the president recently clarified his position against expanding the
court during an interview on MSNBC on Thursday. Biden said progressive efforts to
expand the Supreme Court would "politicize it maybe forever in a way that is not healthy."

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THE COURT

"And I think, look, I think maybe it's just the optimist in me. I think that some of the court
are beginning to realize their legitimacy is being questioned in ways that had not been
questioned in the past," he continued.

AOC did, however, make headlines shortly after the Supreme Court's affirmative action
ruling, after she suggested the high court isn't serious about its "ludicrous ‘colorblindness’
claims" or else it would have "abolished" legacy admissions.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the Supreme Court isn't serious about its "ludicrous ‘colorblindness’ claims." (Tom
Williams)

Ocasio-Cortez shared her thoughts on the ruling on Twitter, noting that "70% of Harvard’s
legacy applicants are white" and that the Supreme Court "didn’t touch that – which would
have impacted them and their patrons."

Many social media users were quick to call the congresswoman out, saying that the issue
of legacy admissions – the practice of giving preference to children of alumni. - was not
before the court.

Fox News' Brianna Herlihy and Kyle Morris contributed to this report.

Haley Chi-Sing is a Fox News Digital production assistant. You can reach her at @haleychising on
Twitter.

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