AOC Claims SCOTUS Is Seeing a ‘Dangerous Authoritarian Expansion of Power’ Amid Recent Decisions
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) insists the Supreme Court needs limits on its power as she claimed it is creeping toward authoritarianism. During an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, the New York congresswoman…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) insists the Supreme Court needs limits on its power as she claimed it is creeping toward authoritarianism.
During an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, the New York congresswoman discussed a trio of decisions the court made last month.
Bash asked, “Are you also saying that the justice’s power should somehow be limited?”
“I truly do,” Ocasio-Cortez responded.
She elaborated:
“The courts, if they were to proceed without any check on their power, without any balance on their power, then we will start to see an undemocratic and, frankly, dangerous authoritarian expansion of power in the Supreme Court, which is what we are seeing now from the overturning of abortion rights to the ruling that discrimination and, frankly, stripping the full personhood and dignity of LGBTQ people in the United States .”
Ocasio-Cortez added, “These are the types of rulings that signal a dangerous creep towards authoritarianism and centralization of power in the court.”
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Her comments come after the Supreme Court