Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez urges Democrats to impeach Bill Barr along with the president

Democrats aren’t handling the news of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death well.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez echoed the earlier comments of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi when she called for the impeachment of Attorney General Bill Barr, as well as President Trump, in a last-ditch effort to stop the nomination of Ginsburg’s replacement.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told reporters that impeaching President Trump and Attorney General William Barr are potential options for Democrats to stop the nomination of a new Supreme Court justice.

“I believe that certainly there has been an enormous amount of lawbreaking in the Trump administration. I believe that Attorney General Barr is unfit for office and that he has pursued potentially lawbreaking behavior,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“That being said, these are procedures and decisions that are largely up to House Democratic leadership. But I believe that also we must consider, again, all of the tools available to our disposal and that all of these options should be entertained and on the table.”

Ocasio-Cortez’s threat was amplified on Twitter by a variety of left-wing accounts.

Bill Barr should be impeached.

That's it.

That's the tweet.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 21, 2020

There is no reason to not impeach Bill Barr. The House could hold hearings and rapidly draft charges. A huge swath of Republicans who served in the FBI, DOJ, etc., have already denounced Barr before his faster rise to fascism in the last few weeks.

— Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) September 21, 2020