Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, said on MSNBC’s “All In” on Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court’s failure to impose penalties for any ethics violations has led to “authoritarianism, tyranny and abuse of power in America.”
“Justice Alito’s position on this is laughable, the idea that he can be held accountable, that the court shouldn’t be held accountable to anybody, and that the only person they should be held accountable to is ourselves, is laughable,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
She continued, “These Scout pledges are indicative of what the ethical standards of the highest and most important court in the country should be. This is completely unacceptable. Not only is it unacceptable, but for someone in a peer institution to be totally unaccountable to another institution paves the way for authoritarianism, tyranny and abuse of power in the United States.”
Ocasio-Cortez added: “Structurally, it’s completely unsustainable. So it doesn’t matter whether Congress has jurisdiction and power over the Supreme Court. What power are we going to use to rein in a Supreme Court that is fundamentally unaccountable and lawless?”
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