Dem Senate candidate calls to 'shut the White House down,' impeach 2 Supreme Court justices
Graham Platner, the front-runner for the Maine Senate Democratic primary, said he would push to subpoena a wide swath of White House officials and to impeach Supreme Court justices Clarence...
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Graham Platner, the front-runner for the Maine Senate Democratic primary, said he would push to subpoena a wide swath of White House officials and to impeach Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito during a recent interview with NBC News. "I want to shut the White House down," he told NBC in an interview released Wednesday. "I want us to, for the next two years, be dragging every single person in the White House, every single person in all these agencies that have been conducting themselves in illegal and unconstitutional ways. They need to be dragged by subpoena in front of Senate committees over and over and over again." Among those he claimed were committing crimes or acting unconstitutionally were officials involved in deploying U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to U.S. cities and those involved in bombing campaigns in the Caribbean against alleged narcoterrorists, operations he referred to as "murder." He also said there is a "compelling case" to impeach both Thomas and Alito. DEMOCRATIC MAINE SENATE CANDIDATE GRAHAM PLATNER CONFRONTED BY MS NOW HOST ABOUT TATTOO CONTROVERSY "The relationship between Clarence Thomas and Harlan Crow is not hard to see as clearly corrupt, and Justice Thomas doesn’t even recuse himself from cases that impact Crow’s businesses," he said. "These are absolutely reasons for removal." Fox News Digital reached out to the White House, the Supreme Court and the Department of Homeland Security, which houses ICE, for comment. In 2024, Justice Thomas amended his 2019 financial disclosure after a ProPublica report revealed that he had received gifts in the form of travel and lodging from GOP mega-donor Harlan Crow. The report revealed that Crow had paid for lodging and transit on his private plane for trips to Bali, Indonesia and Sonoma County, California. Thomas claimed he originally omitted the meals and rides from reports because he believed they fell under the personal hospitality exemption. The exemp…