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“Squad” stalwart Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she’s willing to file articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for failing to report decades of luxury trips with a billionaire GOP donor — even amid an ethics probe of her own.
“I think this is an emergency. I think that this is a crisis,” the New York Democrat said. “I think we’ve had a crisis for some time on the Supreme Court.”
Yet the 33-year-old socialist firebrand is currently facing a House ethics investigation herself.
“If we decide strategically that the actual author of those articles and who introduces them may not be me. That’s fine. I will support impeachment,” she told lefty outlet The Lever.
“But I just think that if no one’s going to introduce it, I would certainly be open to doing so.”
Thomas, 74, confirmed Friday he enjoyed the travel arrangements made by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow — including stays at Crow’s ritzy resort in the Adirondacks and trips on his superyacht and private jet — but asserted it wasn’t mandated to report them as gifts on annual financial disclosure forms.
The trips could have cost the Justice and his wife, conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, more than $500,000 if they paid for themselves, according to the nonprofit media outlet ProPublica, which first reported the arrangement.
“Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years. As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them,” Thomas said in a statement issued by the Supreme Court.
