The New York representative appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, following an eye-opening session given by the special committee investigating the events of January 6. She stated that it was time for Democrats to act on the facts they currently possess.
Ms Ocasio-Cortez explained that this entails expelling any member of Congress who can be proven to have sought a pardon from Donald Trump after January 6 to shield themselves from the obvious potential criminal liability they could face for their participation in an effort that led to an attempted coup by Donald Trump’s supporters.
“Those who specifically requested pardons for themselves should be expelled from the United States House of Representatives at the very least,” she declared to great applause from Mr Colbert’s audience.
“They were willing to commit crimes to illegally gain power, and anyone… of any party should be willing to do the same to damage our democracy,” the representative concluded.
But January 6 is not the only issue that, according to her, her party refuses to take seriously.
Following the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday, Ms Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats, such as Elizabeth Warren, are urging their party’s leaders to take concrete measures to defend the right to abortion in the United States.
Some of the concrete steps proposed by the lawmakers (and rejected by the White House) include supporting changes to the filibuster that would allow the Democratic Party’s 51-vote Senate majority to codify abortion rights, same-sex marriage rights, and interracial marriage rights, as court watchers and activists fear that the Supreme Court will target these issues next.
To protect themselves from the obvious potential criminal liability they could face for their involvement in a campaign that resulted in an attempted coup by Donald Trump’s supporters, Ms Ocasio-Cortez explained that this entails expelling any member of Congress who can be proven to have requested a pardon from Donald Trump after January 6.
Supporting changes to the filibuster that would allow the Democratic Party’s 51-vote Senate majority to codify abortion rights, same-sex marriage rights, and interracial marriage rights, as court watchers and activists fear that the Supreme Court will target these issues next, is one of the concrete steps suggested by the lawmakers (and rejected by the White House).
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The lawmakers have also urged the federal government to establish abortion clinics on federal land, a proposal that the White House has rejected out of concern that women who utilize these services could be prosecuted in red states.
The escalating tension between progressives and the White House on this issue comes as it becomes evident that a significant portion of the Democratic Party’s base is not confident that their party’s leaders have a strategy for preserving abortion rights in the United States beyond campaigning and hoping for a Senate supermajority in the next decade.
