'We have a responsibility to protect our democracy,' said AOC. 'That includes holding those in power who violate the law accountable.'
"If we allow Supreme Court nominees to lie under oath and secure lifetime appointments to the highest court of the land and then issue—without basis, if you read these opinions—rulings that deeply undermine the human civil rights of the majority of Americans, we must see that through," the progressive lawmaker said when asked if the House Judiciary Committee should launch an investigation.
"There must be consequences for such a deeply destabilizing action and the hostile takeover of our democratic institutions," said Ocasio-Cortez. "What makes it particularly dangerous is that it sends a blaring signal to all future nominees that they can now lie to duly elected members of the United States Senate in order to secure Supreme Court confirmations," she added.nearly three million fewer votes than 2016 Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton—appointed three far-right justices to lifetime positions on the Supreme Court during his one term: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.
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