Oh, you’ve got to love a good Congressional hearing where the talking points get flipped right back on the speaker—in real time. And that’s exactly what happened when Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) delivered a sharp fact-check to Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) that left the committee room buzzing.
So here’s the setup: the House was holding a hearing, and Crockett, like several of her fellow Democrats, used her time to sound the alarm on what she painted as a Republican assault on the judiciary. The topic? Impeaching judges. Crockett claimed that this kind of move would shatter democracy itself, citing concerns that ignoring a judge’s order undermines the rule of law.
🔥Jasmine Crockett starts HYPERVENTILATING about protecting the institution of the judiciary — before PROMPTLY being reminded by @repdarrellissa that she cosponsored legislation to impeach Justices Thomas & Alito!
"AOC filed articles of impeachment on Justice Thomas & Alito.… pic.twitter.com/lQZwj3tAWT
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 1, 2025
Now, there’s just one problem with that line of attack. Crockett was conveniently leaving out the glaring example of President Joe Biden doing exactly that—pushing forward with his student loan forgiveness plan even after the Supreme Court made it clear he didn’t have the authority. That, apparently, didn’t merit concern. No hand-wringing. No worries about democratic decay.
Instead, Crockett leaned hard into a familiar narrative: that Republicans were only considering impeachment because they didn’t like the rulings. But that’s not the argument being made by the GOP. Republicans say they’re pursuing these judges for alleged abuses of power, not judicial disagreement.
And that’s when Issa jumped in—with receipts.
He reminded the room, and Crockett specifically, that not so long ago she co-sponsored articles of impeachment against conservative Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas—right alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). That’s right. The same people decrying “politicized impeachment” were leading the charge just months ago when it served their own agenda.
Issa didn’t need to raise his voice or deliver a monologue. Just a quick observation with surgical precision:
“It does seem interesting that when the shoe is on the other foot, everyone is self-righteous!”
Boom. Point made. Mic practically dropped.