AOC calls Roe v. Wade's overturning 'a crisis of our democracy'

Asher Notheis

June 26, 03:33 PM June 26, 03:33 PM

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) stated overturning Roe v. Wade is a "disaster of our democracy" on Sunday, arguing the Supreme Courtroom has "significantly overreached its authority."

In speaking about what the Democratic Party and President Joe Biden can do in reaction to the Supreme Court's ruling, including the possibility of opening health care clinics on federal lands in crimson states, Ocasio-Cortez also raised issues about unique justices them selves all through an visual appeal on NBC's Meet up with the Push.

"We had two conservative senators in the United States Senate, Sen. Manchin and Sen. Collins, arrive out with a very explosive allegation that these — that a number of Supreme Court justices misled them in their — in the course of their confirmation hearings and in the lead-up to their affirmation," Ocasio-Cortez said. "This is a crisis of legitimacy. We have a Supreme Court docket justice whose spouse participated in Jan. 6 and who applied his seat to vote from delivering documents that likely led to proof of these to investigators in Congress. This is a disaster of legitimacy, and President Biden should address that."

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Ocasio-Cortez also proposed that impeachment could be attainable for any of the Supreme Court docket justices who lied underneath oath when they were verified and that there should really be penalties "for these a deeply destabilizing motion and a hostile takeover of our democratic institutions." She included that a justice not disclosing income from political businesses, "as Clarence Thomas did yrs back," could also be an impeachable offense.

A number of liberal lawmakers, together with Ocasio-Cortez, appeared at the Supreme Court docket on Friday just after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Protesters renewed calls to codify abortion rights and extend the court.

Biden claimed for the duration of a speech on Friday that "Roe is on the ballot" in the 2022 midterm elections, and he promised to safeguard the capacity to vacation to search for an abortion, contacting it “a bedrock proper.” The president stated he would do “everything in [his] power to fight” these types of restrictions.