Asked on CNN this week whether Democrats should try to impeach President Trump, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said all options are on the table. She did not name an offense. Then she turned to the Supreme Court, saying it has "kind of legalized a lot of his criminality." Jenny Beth Martin points out what that means: the target is no longer just the President. It is the justices.
Robert McNeily, co-host of The Jenny Beth Show, expects investigation after investigation from the new committee chairs and a Congress that slows to a stop. Paul Teller, who served in President Trump's first White House and spent years on Capitol Hill, explains the complaint underneath the quote: the Court has refused to act as another liberal legislature, so the answer on the left is to add justices until it does. He notes that no one making the case for a bigger Court has offered a principled reason for it. Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg said nine is a good number.
Jenny Beth Martin states where Tea Party Patriots Action stands: nine justices, and respect for the judicial branch even when it rules the other way. Republicans had the votes to add seats and did not try.
In this clip:
• What Ocasio-Cortez said, word for word
• Why investigations of the justices may follow
• The process as the punishment
• Why Republicans never packed the Court
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00:00 — AOC is asked about impeaching President Trump
00:38 — "Kind of legalized" his criminality
01:19 — Impeachment before naming the offense
02:46 — What she is really saying about the Court
03:55 — Will they subpoena the justices?
05:06 — No principled argument for a bigger Court
05:24 — Ginsburg said nine is a good number
06:04 — Republicans had two years and did not pack it
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