Five House Democrats led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York wrote to the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, to demand a federal investigation of the conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, over his acceptance of undeclared gifts from billionaire rightwing donors.
“We write to urge the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into … Clarence Thomas for consistently failing to report significant gifts he received from Harlan Crow and other billionaires for nearly two decades in defiance of his duty under federal law,” the Democrats said.
When the Department of Justice doesn’t do anything, what then?
They can request a hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee or the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss the matter, or they can attempt to introduce new legislation which creates an independent committee to investigate.
I don’t think the Senate has authority over the Court. That’s purely in the purview of the House, which is controlled by the fascist party and so requests and letters are a dead end. It’s gotta be something more aggressive than that.
we can always just eat them
Old people are full of heavy metals, forever chemicals, and sometimes prions. No thanks.
we must transfer the lead from their brains to our bodies
senate has the authority to pack the courts, assuming the president cooperates. of course neither branch will consider that in the name of @[email protected]
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If only the Democrats had the will to expand the house with a simple majority, back when they had the majority. Given how many people there are in left leaning states and cities, it’s absurd that the current GOP should ever be able to take the house. But, as usual , the only party that isn’t completely fascist seem incapable (or unwilling) to do what it takes to secure any power for the people they supposedly represent. We needed to expand the house and expand the Supreme Court ages ago.
Overthrow them
We will return to Bush era programming and put them officially O N N O T I C E
Merrick Garland’s cowardly ass would probably suppress any attempt to investigate Thomas. He wants back to those cushy FedSoc retreats.
More performative inaction and stalling until the Republicans can take over again.
If the entire Dem party was as proactive as AOC something might happen, but they’re not.
So until progressives are in power of the party, they can’t really do anything except “perform” and raise awareness.
Why do you seem to blame the people who are trying instead of the ones who won’t even do that?
Why do you assume they’re trying? They share a tax bracket with Republicans, not you.
House reps make like 175k to maintain a primary residence (for her NYC) and one in DC…
She’s not broke, but she’s not crazy rich either.
And I’m confused, if she was rich, why would her pushing for wealth equality be bad?
It’s not bad, it’s performative. It’s an act, like Nancy Pelosi kneeling with an African scarf. Meaningless, ineffective action that prevents effective and meaningful action.
And what is the plan to put progressives into power? Beg people to vote? The same failed strategy of my entire fucking life?
AOC has a platform. There are millions of people who are ready to march on her command. She could use that instead of writing letters.
It sounds like you’re saying she should pull a trump?
Or you greatly overestimate how much a peaceful protest would change the minds of Clearance Thomas or the “moderates” running the Dem party…
I mean, she’s literally using her platform right now
Calling for , encouraging and even organizing a peaceful protest isn’t “pulling a Trump “. Encouraging people to physically harm others to prevent vote counting and the peaceful transfer of power is what Trump did. Please don’t conflate legitimate protests with insurrection and attempted coups.
She’s not calling for protest. She’s not calling on her supporters to rise up and target McCarthy or Thomas. That’s what she should be doing.
Do everything she can to stress for nonviolent resistance, of course, but our greatest enemies are just men. They have addresses, friends and family, business interests, investments, properties, vocal and financial supporters, and many other targets that are very vulnerable to collective action. I certainly don’t want overenthusiastic people with guns to storm the Capital or anything like that!
It’s frustrating when you see someone doing a fantastic job of pushing the party further to the left, and doing everything they can to be a voice of reason and logic when there seems to be so little and then seeing someone like you going, “They aren’t doing enough.” Mate, what are YOU doing?
I’m a stupid worthless loser, what the fuck can I do besides whine on the internet?
She hasn’t pushed the Party anywhere. The voters did that! She just obeys.
On a completely unrelated note:
Anyone else have recommendations for an instance that doesn’t federate with lemmygrad or lemmy.ml?
This shit is getting old
Libs can’t stand having their echo chambers violated lol
Oh please, everyone likes to think they are above this. Your leftist community is no different. I made a single comment unknowingly in lemmygrad and was accused of being a colonialist for being a social Democrat. They used racial slurs against me, they accused me of saying things I never said, and acted like I was the evil that invaded their space. They didn’t block me, but holy fuck were they a toxic cesspit of leftist rage because I wasn’t “left” enough.
You want social change that doesn’t end in anarchy and countless deaths, societal change needs to happen slowly and they couldn’t find reason in that. They want/expect some sort of paradigm shift and anyone that doesn’t fight for this is “the enemy”.
Fuck them entirely and communist horse they rode in on.
Nah, but there’s always the block button…
Although from your profile it seems like you get banned pretty often and I’ll have to block you again later.
Why would you want any Democrat doing that after going on and on about January 6th?
That’s what Trump and his cult claim they were doing 🤦
Now any politician calling for any sort of action besides voting are going to look like him, and remind people of that. It’s all about perception.
There are millions of people who will march on AOC’s command!?!?
If she went on live television and called for mass protest, she could get millions of people to act in cities all across the country.
Maybe it wouldn’t be millions right away, but so many people are just waiting for the Call to Action from their leaders.
I don’t know if the progressives within the DNC could really mobilize a multi million person protest but if they could organize a general strike then that would get shit done. I’ve heard that if about 10% of workers strike then that has enough impact on the investor class to actually have leverage. Of course, the US isn’t France and the average person has no union, no savings and no access to a social safety net, so I’m not holding my breath.
Why not both?