WHILE Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was serving her second term in office, she campaigned for reelection again.
Ultimately, she defeated Tina Forte and was elected to a third term as US Representative for New York’s 14th congressional district.
GettyAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez pictured at a Get Out the Vote rally in June 2024[/caption]
Where is AOC today?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is seeking a fourth congressional term.
On June 25, 2024, she defeated Marty Dolan in the Democratic Primary.
On July 10 of the abovementioned year, she arranged articles of impeachment against Supreme Court justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.
“Congress has a legal, moral, and democratic obligation to impeach,” stated AOC.
Why did AOC propose to impeach Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito?
According to AOC, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito failed to disclose gifts they received while serving on the court.
“Justice Thomas and Alito’s repeated failure over decades to disclose that they received millions of dollars in gifts from individuals with business before the court is explicitly against the law,” the rep explained.
“And their refusal to recuse from the specific matters and cases before the court in which their benefactors and spouses are implicated represents nothing less than a constitutional crisis.
“The unchecked corruption crisis on the Supreme Court has now spiraled into a constitutional crisis threatening American democracy writ large.
“Their actions posed a grave threat to the American rule of law, the integrity of our democracy, and one of the clearest cases for which the tool of impeachment was designed.
“These failures alone would amount to a deep transgression worthy of standard removal in any lower court, and would disqualify any nominee to the highest court from confirmation in the first place.”
Why was AOC arrested?
On July 19, 2022, AOC went to Washington, DC, for a protest.
The protest took place in front of the White House and was centered around the topic of abortion rights raised by the SCOTUS verdict to overturn Roe v. Wade.
GettyAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez pictured at the 2019 SXSW festival[/caption]
During that Tuesday’s protest, police arrested AOC concerning her attendance at the demonstration.
The Congresswoman was apprehended with 34 other individuals.
The list of arrests included her fellow politicians Carolyn Maloney, Nydia Velazquez, Jackie Speier, and Bonnie Watson Coleman.
Crowding, obstruction, and incommoding were the reasons cited for the arrest of AOC and fellow protestors.
On June 28, 2022, AOC appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
During the chat, the two went into a discussion about a number of subjects.
The politician and the talk show host talked about the abortion rights resulting from Roe v. Wade, SCOTUS’ verdict to overturn the former, and the Hyde Amendment.
When was AOC elected to the US Congress?
In April 2017, AOC commenced her campaign as the Democratic primary representative for New York’s 14th congressional district.
On June 26, 2018, she was elected to the aforementioned position and supplanted her party’s 10-year incumbent, Joe Crowley.
By achieving this, she became the youngest woman to ever serve the US Congress.
She assumed her seat on January 3, 2019, and was re-elected on November 3, 2020, over the Republican candidate, John Cummings.
Regarding her re-election, Alexandria told Vanity Fair: “There have been many times, especially in the first six months, where I felt like I couldn’t do this, like I didn’t know if I was going to be able to run for reelection.
“There was a time where the volume of threats had gotten so high that I didn’t even know if I was going to live to my next term.”
The representative shared: “I don’t want to aspire to a quote-unquote higher position just for the sake of that title or just for the sake of having a different or higher position.
“I truly make an assessment to see if I can be more effective and so, you know – I don’t know if I could necessarily be more effective in an administration, but for me, that’s always what the question comes down to.”
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