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

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

In discussing what the Democratic Celebration and President Joe Biden can do in response to the Supreme Courtroom's ruling, together with the potential for opening healthcare clinics on federal lands in pink states, Ocasio-Cortez additionally raised considerations about particular person justices themselves throughout an look on NBC's Meet the Press.

"We had two conservative senators in the US Senate, Sen. Manchin and Sen. Collins, come out with a really explosive allegation that these — that a number of Supreme Courtroom justices misled them of their — throughout their affirmation hearings and within the lead-up to their affirmation," Ocasio-Cortez mentioned. "It is a disaster of legitimacy. Now we have a Supreme Courtroom justice whose spouse participated in Jan. 6 and who used his seat to vote towards offering paperwork that probably led to proof of such to investigators in Congress. It is a disaster of legitimacy, and President Biden should tackle that."

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Ocasio-Cortez additionally recommended that impeachment might be potential for any of the Supreme Courtroom justices who lied below oath after they had been confirmed and that there must be penalties "for such a deeply destabilizing motion and a hostile takeover of our democratic establishments." She added that a justice not disclosing revenue from political organizations, "as Clarence Thomas did years in the past," may be an impeachable offense.

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

Biden claimed throughout a speech on Friday that "Roe is on the poll" within the 2022 midterm elections, and he promised to guard the flexibility to journey to hunt an abortion, calling it “a bedrock proper.” The president mentioned he would do “all the pieces in [his] energy to combat” such restrictions.