Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, speaks to members of the media during a break in the interview with Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Republicans in the US Congress are formally investigating whether to impeach President Joe Biden over his family's business dealings, a politically charged move that casts a shadow on the 2024 election. Progressives and others have criticised both justices over reports they accepted vacations from wealthy people and failed to recuse from cases despite conflicts they said were created by their spouses.
Given the Supreme Court’s refusal to deal with the issue itself, “Congress has a legal, moral, and democratic obligation to impeach,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a press release on Wednesday.
Samuel Chase was the lone justice to be impeached by the House, in 1804. He was acquitted by the Senate.
The success of either resolution is unlikely given Republican control of the House.
Conservatives have decried Supreme Court ethics concerns as a political ploy by the left to undo the 6-3 conservative majority.