Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the U.S. Supreme Court no longer had legitimacy.
Discussing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepting gifts, Ocasio-Cortez said, “He stated that the reason and the rationale for this exemption was personal hospitality from an old friend. And he said himself in his statement a friend of 25 years. Justice Thomas has been on the court for 30 years, and so to stay what he is admitting in his statement, in an attempt to defend himself, is that he began this relationship with a billionaire and receiving these sorts of gifts as after he was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States. I think that that in and of itself indicates a very, very serious problem.”
Anchor Dana Bash asked, “Should the Justice Department investigate?” Read more…