Rep. Louie Gohmert suggests impeachment of Kagan over health care ruling (VIDEO)
GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert holds a news conference in March on the first day of U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care law in Washington, DC.
A leading Republican congressman in the fight to overturn Obamacare called Thursday's Supreme Court decision "illegitimate" and suggested one of the justices be impeached.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Tea Party favorite, told reporters he would call for an investigation into Justice Elena Kagan’s involvement in developing the health care reform law and whether it affected the court's 5-4 decision to uphold it, Politico reported.
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Kagan served as solicitor general when the law was passed in 2010, and opponents have argued she should not have cast her vote if she aided in its creation.
Gohmert told Think Progress doing so would break federal law.
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"If it turns out that she lied in order to get on the court, that she did express opinions about the bill, that she did participate in meetings about the bill," he said, according to The Huffington Post, "that would prove she lied to get on to the court, and she should be impeached."
The law's supporters launched a similarly unsuccessful attempt to remove Justice Clarence Thomas from the case because his wife was actively trying to repeal the law, according to Politico.