Maine Senate frontrunner calls to impeach Thomas and Alito in interview
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Graham Platner, the frontrunner in the Maine Senate Democratic primary, said he would push for the subpoenaing of a broad group of White House officials and the removal of Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. last interview via NBC News.
“I want to close the White House,” he told NBC in an interview aired Wednesday. “I want us to drag every single person in the White House over the next two years, every single person in all of these organizations that are acting illegally and unconstitutionally. They need to be subpoenaed over and over again in front of Senate committees.”
Among those he alleged had committed crimes or acted unconstitutionally were officials who deployed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to U.S. cities and those who participated in bombing campaigns against alleged narcoterrorists in the Caribbean, operations he called “murder.”
He also said there was a “compelling case” for removing both Thomas and Alito.
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“It is not difficult to see that the relationship between Clarence Thomas and Harlan Crow is clearly corrupt, and Judge Thomas does not even recuse himself from cases affecting Crow’s business,” he said. “Those are certainly grounds for suspension.”
Senatorial candidate Graham Platner speaks during a town hall at the Leavitt Theater on October 22, 2025 in Ogunquit, Maine. (Sophie Park/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House, the Supreme Court and the Department of Homeland Security, which houses ICE, for comment.
In 2024, Judge Thomas changed his 2019 financial disclosure after a ProPublica report revealed that he had received gifts in the form of travel and lodging from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. The report revealed that Crow paid for lodging and transportation on his private plane for trips to Bali, Indonesia and Sonoma County, California.
Thomas claimed he initially omitted meals and outings from the reports because he believed they fell under the personal entertainment exemption. The exemption stems from Judicial Conference guidance which states that a friend’s “personal hospitality” need not be reported unless the friend has business before the Court.
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“Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our closest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years,” Thomas said in a statement at the time.
“As friends do, we joined them on a number of family outings over the more than a quarter-century we knew them. Early in my tenure on the Court, I sought guidance from colleagues and others in the judiciary and was told that such personal hospitality from close personal friends who had no business before the Court was not reportable,” he wrote.
The report also revealed that Thomas sold three homes in Savannah, Georgia, to Crow for $133,000 in 2014. Thomas said he did not list the sales because the sale would mean a financial loss after he spent more than $50,000 renovating one of the homes.
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Platner did not specify in the interview why he believed Alito should be charged.
In 2023, Alito defended himself against criticism about his 2009 trip on a private jet paid for by billionaire Paul Singer. Alito did not explain Singer’s trip to the Supreme Court or recusing himself from future work. Alito argued that the trip “would not cause a reasonable and impartial person to doubt my ability to impartially decide the issues at stake.”
Thomas is not the only Supreme Court Justice to change his financial disclosures.
In 2021, Justice Sonia Sotomayor updated her 2016 statement to include six trips to public universities paid for by schools she had previously neglected. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson also updated statements made over a decade during the nomination process. The deficiencies included her husband’s consulting income, her teacher’s salary, and the gift she received for giving a speech.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks during the 60th commemoration of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., on Sept. 15, 2023. The 1963 bombing killed Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley. (Butch Dill – Pool/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital asked Platner’s campaign if it would support impeaching other justices, including Sotomayor and Jackson, but did not immediately receive a response.
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Platner also echoed an increasingly popular view on the left that Democrats should support expanding the Supreme Court, telling NBC he was “absolutely open to doing more, including adding seats.”
While Platner stated that he supports judicial charges, he added that Democrats should not waste time in removing Trump from office.
“If we don’t have the votes in the Senate to convict, I don’t think we should waste our time on this,” he told the press.
Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, points to a covered tattoo previously considered a Nazi symbol during an interview in Portland, Maine, on October 22, 2025. (WGME via AP)
He also said he doesn’t want to see a repeat of Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (DY) tenure as leader of the Democrats in the Senate. Schumer publicly supported Platner’s primary opponent, Maine Gov. Janet Mills.
Platner put forward four names to replace Schumer: Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.; Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.; Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii; and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.
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Platner, a self-described progressive, is a supporter of Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. and sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. He is a combat veteran who served three tours in Iraq as a Marine and one tour in Afghanistan with the Maine National Guard.
He currently leads the polls over both Democratic primary challenger Mills and incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. However, his campaign did not go completely smoothly.
He has had to face a lot of controversies in recent months; most notably the revelation that he once had a large chest tattoo resembling Nazi iconography.
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In October, Platner concealed a skull and crossbones tattoo on his chest, which closely resembles the Totenkopf symbol used by Hitler’s SS forces. Platner claimed that he got the tattoo while drunk in Croatia while a veteran, and that he did not know it resembled a Nazi symbol until media reports in 2024. He says he plans to remove the tattoo.
Platner also admitted to running an angry Reddit account that disparaged black people and police and praised the raid by Hamas terrorists.
