Backed by dozens of progressive groups and congressional Democrats, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday reintroduced legislation designed to tackle both the affordable housing crisis and the climate emergency. The New York Democrat and Vermont Independent are leading the renewed fight for the Green New Deal …
Read More »AOC Becomes First House Progressive to Call for Menendez Resignation
New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday became the first progressive House Democrat to call on Sen. Bob Menendez to resign following the former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair’s indictment last week on federal bribery charges. Menendez (D-N.J.) and his wife, Nadine Menendez, were charged Friday with accepting hundreds of …
Read More »AOC Leads Call for DOJ Probe of Clarence Thomas Over ‘Blatant Disregard for Judicial Ethics’
A day after several House Democrats urged U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign following fresh reporting on undisclosed luxury vacations he accepted from wealthy Republican donors, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday led a letter calling on the Department of Justice to investigate the right-wing judge’s failure to report …
Read More »AOC Calls Out ‘Dangerous Authoritarian Expansion of Power in the Supreme Court’
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday warned of an “authoritarian expansion of power” by the Supreme Court and demanded that lawmakers on Capitol Hill use all of their oversight authority to probe and stop the corruption inside the Supreme Court. “The courts, if they were to proceed without any check …
Read More »Rep. AOC Rebukes Alito ‘Tantrum’ and ‘Highly Politicized’ Supreme Court
Jon Quealy, Common Dreams Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito of throwing a ‘tantrum’ in his written dissent to Friday night’s ruling over the abortion medication mifepristone and said the Court’s right-wing majority has become an ideological political force that must be checked by the two …
Read More »Rep. AOC, Sen. Markey Reintroduce Green New Deal Resolution
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams Backed by climate, health, and labor groups, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey on Thursday reintroduced the Green New Deal Resolution, which the progressive leaders have been fighting for since they first unveiled it in February 2019. “In the four years since we first …
Read More »AOC Calls Biden Reversal on Protections for Trans Athletes a ‘Disgrace’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday was among the progressives denouncing the Biden administration’s newly proposed rules for transgender student-athletes, which critics said would open the door to discrimination at all age levels despite the U.S. Department of Education’s statement that “categorically” banning trans athletes from teams that align with their …
Read More »AOC Says Clarence Thomas ‘Must Be Impeached’ Over ‘Almost Cartoonish’ Corruption
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that the U.S. House should impeach right-wing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in the wake of ProPublica reporting that exposed the judge’s billionaire-funded luxury vacations. “This is beyond party or partisanship. This degree of corruption is shocking—almost cartoonish. Thomas must be impeached,” Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who …
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