(Reuters) - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has introduced articles of impeachment against blimpish Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, her bureau said successful a connection connected Wednesday.

The effort stands nary accidental of advancing successful the GOP-controlled House of Representatives. To region an authoritative done this process, the House indispensable ballot to impeach and the Senate past indispensable ballot to convict.

Democrats for years person criticized the court, which has a 6-3 blimpish majority, implicit rulings that precocious causes fashionable connected the right. These person included rolling backmost termination rights, expanding weapon rights, rejecting race-conscious collegiate admissions and ruling that erstwhile presidents person wide immunity from prosecution for authoritative acts successful bureau successful a determination favoring Donald Trump.

Ocasio-Cortez said successful a connection that Thomas and Alito's "pattern of refusal to recuse from consequential matters earlier the tribunal successful which they clasp wide documented fiscal and idiosyncratic entanglements constitutes a sedate menace to American regularisation of law."

Some legislature Democrats person accused Thomas and Alito, 2 of the court's astir blimpish justices, of ethical lapses.

Activists criticized Thomas pursuing reports that helium failed to disclose accepting question and lodging from a affluent benefactor and that his woman was progressive successful efforts to overturn Trump's 2020 predetermination loss. Thomas has said that helium regarded the question helium accepted arsenic idiosyncratic hospitality not taxable to disclosure requirements.

Alito likewise faced disapproval aft the revelation that flags associated with Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 results were flown extracurricular the justice's homes successful Virginia and New Jersey. Alito has said it was his wife, not him, who flew the flags.