, 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.
"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.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.
"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."
"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 potentiallyas we saw in the refusal with Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from cases implicating his wife in Jan. 6.
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