You must offer it to them. Some members of our Congress have no trouble coming up with inventive ways to waste tax dollars.

Let’s start with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who on Wednesday filed articles of impeachment against Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito of the Supreme Court. This action is the result of numerous Supreme Court decisions that have left progressives all over the country with rivers of tears in their eyes.

Ocasio-Cortez cited accusations of improper behavior about Thomas’s friendship with millionaire Harlan Crow in her submission, a topic Democrats have been bringing up for more than a year. According to the records, Thomas neglected to declare a number of presents from his buddy, which included journeys to Greece, New Zealand, and Indonesia. It also included the justice’s nephew’s tuition fees.

According to the lawsuit, “Judge Thomas and his wife Virginia Ginni Thomas have received gifts from Harlan Crow of substantial value over the period of at least 15 years without declaring the source description and value of such gifts.”

The congressman also charges Thomas with making decisions that were improperly influenced by Crow. She asserts that the judge “frequently embraced” the AIE’s viewpoints. Crow had been on the organization’s board of directors.

The complaint details Thomas’ purported inability to “disclose the 2014 sale of a home and two vacant lots previously owned by Justice Thomas and two family members to Mr. Crow for $133,363, an amount much higher than the amount that Justice Thomas valued his one-third ownership in the properties in 2010” and “significantly higher than the price of other properties in the neighborhood.”

The articles brought against Alito focus on his alleged unwillingness to step down from cases in which he had personal prejudice or bias against a political party. The controversy around Alito (or his spouse) hanging an American flag upside-down outside his home caught Ocasio-Cortez’s attention. She claims that this shows support for the movement to nullify the results of the 2020 presidential election.

“Justice Alito permitted an American flag to fly upside-down outside his main property for a few days in January 2021. In the aftermath of the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which took place just before Justice Alito permitted the flags to fly outside his home, those who supported the criminal efforts to overturn the 2020 election results were known to have flown an upside-down American flag as a symbol of their support.

In defiance of his constitutional oath of office, the congressman claims that by flying this flag, “he expressed sympathy for domestic enemies of the United States, some of whom engaged in an uprising at the U.S. Capitol building.”

Democrats mistakenly expressed their outrage over the UpsideDownFlagGate incident, urging him to distance himself from any cases involving former President Donald Trump and the violence in the Capitol building on January 6.

Alito essentially instructed them to ignore the situation. An “empathetic individual, not driven by political or ideological factors or a desire to influence the resolution of matters before the Supreme Court, would determine that this occurrence does not meet the appropriate threshold for recusal,” he maintained.

This endeavor is obviously futile, and AOC is aware of this. The politician seems to be tired of not being in the spotlight as much as she was when she first joined Congress and is trying to figure out how to get back there with taxpayer money.

Author: Scott Dowdy