AOC launches effort to impeach Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's salvo seeks accountability over conservative supreme court justices' ethics controversies

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced articles of impeachment against the conservative US supreme court justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito on Wednesday over the justices' pattern of refusal to recuse from consequential matters before the court".

The articles of impeachment are unlikely to gain traction in the US House, which is controlled by Republicans. The effort follows calls from two US senators, Sheldon Whitehouse and Ron Wyden, for the US attorney general to appoint a special counsel to investigate potential criminal violations of federal ethics and tax laws by Thomas.