BREAKING: AOC files articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas

New York's own Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made good on her promise on Wednesday and filed articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas. This comes as senators seek to engage in a new round of lawfare against Thomas over alleged ethics complaints regarding vacations and trips.

A reporter for MSNBC said that AOC was not actually filing impeachment charges over opinions from the independent judiciary body, but due to their "conduct around the office." She accused them of "not properly disclosing financial benefits and gifts that they were given by donors or others."

She also claimed that Thomas and Alito "refused to recuse" themselves from cases where they had a "personal bias or prejudice concerning a party." When asked to force a justice to recuse himself from a case, Chief Justice Roberts said that absolutely he would not do that and spoke to the independence of justices and the court itself.

The articles of impeachment are co-sponsored by Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.), Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), Axios reports.

AOC made the promise to file the articles on July 1, following a ruling from the high court that determined that former presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for actions undertaken as official acts of the office. While MSNBC and the articles did not specify the immunity ruling as the cause for her filing, when she promised to impeach the justices, she specifically referenced the immunity ruling as the reason she would do so.

"The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control," after the ruling came down in Trump's favor 6-3," she said at the time. "Today’s ruling represents an assault on American democracy. It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture. I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return." 

"The first impeachment resolution includes the following impeachment articles against Justice Thomas," AOC said. Her articles of impeachment did not include her disgust with the immunity ruling, though that was her stated impetus for drawing up the document.

"Failure to disclose financial income, gifts and reimbursements, property interests, liabilities, and transactions, among other information. Refusal to recuse from matters concerning his spouse’s legal interest in cases before the court.
Refusal to recuse from matters involving his spouse’s financial interest in cases before the court. 

"The second impeachment resolution includes the following impeachment articles against Justice Alito: 

"Refusal to recuse from cases in which he had a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party in cases before the court. Failure to disclose financial income, gifts and reimbursements, property interests, liabilities, and transactions, among other information."

She claimed that "such conduct—while under a Judicial Oath to “faithfully and impartially discharge and perform” duties and a Constitutional Oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic”—warrants impeachment, trial, removal from office, and disqualification from holding future office in the United States of America."

Senator Elizabeth Warren also had a wild reaction to the immunity ruling, saying that the court should be expanded, or packed with more justices. This would give a Democrat president the ability to put more, left-leaning justices on the bench and skew the balance of power.

The ruling from the court read: "The President enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts, and not everything the President does is official. The President is not above the law. But Congress may not criminalize the President’s conduct in carrying out the responsibilities of the Executive Branch under the Constitution. And the system of separated powers designed by the Framers has always demanded an energetic, independent Executive."  

"The President therefore may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. That immunity applies equally to all occupants of the Oval Office, regardless of politics, policy, or party," it added.