Liberal billionaires bankrolled a left-wing media smear campaign to destroy Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Now Democrats are ready to ramp up their attacks.
And James Carville revealed what the end game for Democrats is.
The Years-Long Campaign to Impeach Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito
Left-wing nonprofit ProPublica launched the opening salvo in 2023 – a coordinated series of hit pieces accusing Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito of ethics violations so grave they warranted removal from the bench.
What ProPublica left out is that its top donors are the same liberal billionaires funding Demand Justice, Alliance for Justice, and every other dark-money group running campaigns to remove Thomas from the Court.
The Sandler Foundation – which made ProPublica possible with a $40 million gift – also gave $500,000 to Demand Justice, the court-packing group that led smear campaigns against Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.
The overlap is not coincidence – it is a coordinated political operation.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez filed articles of impeachment against Thomas and Alito in July 2024, following the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling.
Republicans controlled the House and the articles went nowhere, which was exactly the point.
Former Obama administration official Brandon Friedman confirmed what the whole operation was really about.
"Before everyone starts whining about how an impeachment of Supreme Court justices won't pass a Republican-controlled House, that isn't what this is about," Friedman wrote. "It's about the spectacle."
James Carville Just Revealed the Democrat Plan to Pack the Supreme Court
AOC stood outside the Capitol and told CNN's Manu Raju that impeaching Supreme Court justices is "on the table" when Democrats take control of the House in January.
She named no specific justice and cited no specific conduct – because the specifics are irrelevant to what Democrats are actually building toward.
James Carville already gave them the blueprint months ago, predicting that Democrats would win the 2028 presidency and that Congress would then push the Supreme Court from nine justices to thirteen.
This is a three-step operation: First, paint conservative justices as extreme and corrupt – driving down public trust in the Court.
Second, wait for a Democrat trifecta in the White House and Congress.
Third, eliminate the filibuster and pack the court with four new left-wing justices who immediately reverse every ruling Democrats despise.
AOC's CNN appearance this week was Step One.
Pete Buttigieg – likely the 2028 Democrat presidential frontrunner – already called the Court "rogue" and endorsed expanding its membership.
Elizabeth Warren has been pushing court expansion for years, and when a reporter asked House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries directly whether he supports packing the Court, Jeffries refused to answer.
Court packing is no longer a fringe position in the Democratic Party – it is the 2028 platform.
Democrats Have Tried to Pack the Supreme Court Before
Franklin Roosevelt tried this in 1937.
After the Supreme Court struck down pieces of his New Deal, FDR cooked up the Judicial Procedures Reform Act – a plan to pack the Court with up to six additional justices of his own choosing.
Congress rejected it, with members of both parties calling it a raw political power grab.
Democrats are not trying to ram this through overnight – they are running a decade-long delegitimization campaign designed to soften the public first, so that by the time 2028 arrives, court packing sounds like a repair and not a takeover.
Judicial Crisis Network president Carrie Severino warned that Democrats' court-packing threats are designed to "undermine and intimidate" the justices.
AOC's impeachment push is about one thing – destroying the American public's trust in the last institution Democrats cannot currently control, so that when they finally do control everything, packing it feels like justice.
The Supreme Court has never removed a justice through impeachment in its entire history. Justice Samuel Chase was impeached by the House in 1804 and acquitted by the Senate.
Every Democrat standing at that podium knows impeachment is impossible – which is exactly why they keep demanding it.
The press conference is the product and the outrage is the strategy – and they just told you exactly where this ends.
Sources:
- Ben Kew, "AOC Floats Impeaching Supreme Court Justices," The Gateway Pundit, November 12, 2026.
- "Watch: AOC Suggests Democrats Are Willing to Impeach SCOTUS Justices," Breitbart, November 12, 2026.
- "AOC Files Articles of Impeachment Against Justices Alito and Thomas," Fox News, July 2024.
- "ProPublica's Smearing of Conservative Justices Is Part of the Left's Ploy to Destroy the Court," The Federalist, June 2023.
- "Group Targeting Conservative Supreme Court Justices Propped Up by Left-Wing Megadonors," Washington Examiner, 2023.
- "Democrats Weigh Options Rigging Supreme Court," Washington Times, June 2026.
- "Drinking the Court-Packing Kool-Aid: Buttigieg Joins the Calls to Take Over the Supreme Court," Jonathan Turley, June 14, 2026.
- Martha Jenkins, "Democrats' Court-Packing Threats in Virginia Are Practice for the U.S. Supreme Court," Townhall, May 15, 2026.
