Team AOC - It’s time to impeach Clarence Thomas.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been accepting luxury trips from billionaire Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow nearly every year for 20 years — and has never once reported them on financial disclosures, as per ethics rules for judges, members of Congress, and other federal officials. 

And after the explosive report from ProPublica became public, Justice Thomas’ own statement raises even more serious questions. 

In the statement, Thomas says the reason and rationale for this exemption was ‘personal hospitality from an old friend.’ He said himself in the statement ‘a friend of 25 years.’ Justice Thomas has been on the Court for 30 years. 

What he is admitting is that he began this relationship with a billionaire, and receiving these sorts of gifts, after he was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States. 

That, in and of itself, indicates a very serious problem.

On top of that, when it comes to Justice Thomas’ statement, when he’s talking about his colleagues and who advised him to break the law, we need to know who those people are.

There have been calls for Chief Justice Roberts to initiate an investigation, but this court no longer has any legitimacy — especially after the investigation into the Supreme Court leak last year, which never came to a conclusion.

Alexandria made it clear yesterday on CNN’s State of the Union: It is the House’s responsibility to pursue that investigation in the form of impeachment.

We’ll admit that it’s difficult to see a path in a Republican Party that refuses to hold itself accountable, and breaches the law itself.

For all of the Republican talk about a crime wave across the country, the crime wave is in the Republican Party. We are seeing laws broken by conservative members of the court, and a former President of the United States indicted in recent days. 

If it is Republicans that decide to protect those who are breaking the law, then they are the ones who are responsible for the decision. We need to hold our systems accountable, and we should not refuse to do that for political reasons. 

Yours in service,

Team AOC