2026年4月22日 美国东部时间下午1:17 / 福克斯新闻网
这位进步派候选人还呼吁弹劾最高法院大法官克拉伦斯·托马斯和塞缪尔·阿利托
作者：罗伯特·麦格里维，福克斯新闻
缅因州参议院民主党初选领跑者格雷厄姆·普拉特纳在近日接受NBC新闻采访时表示，他将推动传唤大批白宫官员，并弹劾最高法院大法官克拉伦斯·托马斯和塞缪尔·阿利托。
“我想要关停白宫，”他在周三发布的采访中对NBC表示。“我希望我们在接下来两年里，把白宫里的每一个人、所有那些一直在以非法和违宪方式行事的机构里的每一个人都拖出来。他们需要一次又一次地被传票传唤到参议院委员会面前接受质询。”
他声称存在犯罪行为或违宪行为的官员包括参与向美国城市部署美国移民海关执法局（ICE）人员的官员，以及参与在加勒比地区针对所谓麻醉恐怖分子开展轰炸行动的官员，他将这些行动称为“谋杀”。
他还表示，有“令人信服的理由”弹劾托马斯和阿利托两人。
缅因州民主党参议院候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳因纹身争议被MSNBC主持人质问
“克拉伦斯·托马斯与哈兰·克劳之间的关系显然带有腐败色彩，而托马斯大法官甚至没有回避那些会影响克劳企业利益的案件，”他说。“这些绝对是罢免他的理由。”
2025年10月22日，格雷厄姆·普拉特纳在缅因州奥甘奎特的莱维特剧院市政厅发表讲话。（索菲·帕克/盖蒂图片社）
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系白宫、最高法院以及管辖移民海关执法局的国土安全部请其置评。
2024年，ProPublica的一篇报道披露大法官托马斯接受了共和党超级富豪哈兰·克劳提供的旅行和住宿礼品后，托马斯对其2019年的财务披露文件进行了补正。报道显示，克劳曾为托马斯前往印度尼西亚巴厘岛和加利福尼亚州索诺马县的旅行支付住宿和私人飞机交通费用。
托马斯最初称他未申报这些餐饮和出行费用，是因为他认为这些属于私人款待豁免范畴。该豁免条款出自美国司法会议的指导意见，其中规定“来自朋友的私人款待”，若该朋友并无案件在最高法院待审，则无需申报。
“哈兰和凯西·克劳是我们最亲密的朋友之一，我们相识已有二十五年以上，”托马斯当时在一份声明中说道。
“作为朋友，在相识的二十多年里，我们曾和他们一起参加过多次家庭旅行。在我任职最高法院初期，我曾向同事和司法界其他人士征求意见，他们建议我，这种来自亲密私人朋友的私人款待，且该朋友并无案件在最高法院待审，无需申报，”他写道。
报道还披露，托马斯于2014年将佐治亚州萨凡纳的三处房产卖给了克劳，售价13.3万美元。托马斯称他未申报这笔交易是因为，他在其中一处房产上花费了超过5万美元进行翻新，这笔交易最终导致他蒙受了经济损失。
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普拉特纳在采访中未具体说明他认为阿利托应当被弹劾的理由。
2023年，阿利托为自己辩护，驳斥外界对他2009年乘坐亿万富翁保罗·辛格私人飞机出行的批评。他未申报此次出行，也未在之后涉及辛格商业利益的最高法院案件中回避。阿利托辩称，此次出行“不会让任何理性且无偏见的人质疑我公正裁决相关案件的能力”。
托马斯并非唯一一位补正财务披露文件的最高法院大法官。
2021年，索尼娅·索托马约尔大法官更新了其2016年的披露文件，补正了此前遗漏的六次由公立大学支付费用的大学出访行程。凯坦ji·布朗·杰克逊大法官在其提名确认过程中，也对十年间的多份披露文件进行了补正，遗漏内容包括其丈夫的咨询收入、她的教师薪资以及她发表演讲获得的一份礼品。
2023年9月15日，最高法院大法官凯坦ji·布朗·杰克逊在阿拉巴马州伯明翰举行的第16街浸信会教堂爆炸事件60周年纪念活动上发表讲话。1963年的这起爆炸案导致丹尼斯·麦克奈尔、艾迪·梅·柯林斯、卡萝尔·罗伯逊和辛西娅·韦斯利遇难。（布奇·迪尔/ pooled image / 盖蒂图片社）
福克斯新闻数字频道曾询问普拉特纳的竞选团队，他是否会支持弹劾包括索托马约尔和杰克逊在内的其他大法官，但未立即得到回复。
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普拉特纳还呼应了左翼日益流行的观点，即民主党应当支持扩大最高法院规模，他对NBC表示，他“绝对支持采取更多行动，包括增加大法官席位”。
在表示支持弹劾司法人员的同时，普拉特纳补充道，民主党不应在弹劾总统唐纳德·特朗普一事上浪费时间。
“如果我们在参议院没有足够票数定罪，我认为我们不该在这件事上浪费时间，”他对该媒体表示。
2025年10月22日，格雷厄姆·普拉特纳在缅因州波特兰的一次采访中指着自己被遮盖的纹身，该纹身此前被认为是纳粹标志。（WGME via 美联社）
他还表示，不希望参议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党议员查克·舒默再次担任参议院民主党领袖。舒默已公开支持普拉特纳的民主党初选对手、缅因州州长珍妮特·米尔斯。
普拉特纳提出了四位接替舒默的人选：康涅狄格州民主党参议员克里斯·墨菲、亚利桑那州民主党参议员马克·凯利、夏威夷州民主党参议员布莱恩·沙茨以及马里兰州民主党参议员克里斯·范·霍伦。
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普拉特纳自称是进步派人士，获得了佛蒙特州独立党参议员伯尼·桑德斯、马萨诸塞州民主党参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦以及纽约州民主党众议员亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科特兹的支持。他是一名退伍军人，曾作为海军陆战队队员在伊拉克执行三次任务，还随缅因州国民警卫队赴阿富汗执行任务。
目前，他在民调中领先于民主党初选对手米尔斯以及现任共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯。但他的竞选之路并非一帆风顺。
近几个月来，他不得不应对多起争议，最引人关注的或许是他曾拥有一个酷似纳粹标志的大型胸前纹身的爆料。
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去年10月，普拉特纳遮盖了自己胸前酷似希特勒党卫军使用的骷髅头标志的纹身。普拉特纳称，他是在克罗地亚喝醉后纹的这个纹身，当时他还是一名军人，直到2024年媒体报道后才知道这个纹身类似纳粹标志。他表示计划将其去除。
普拉特纳还承认自己运营过一个出格的Reddit账号，该账号 reportedly 曾诋毁黑人和警察，并称赞哈马斯恐怖分子发动的突袭行动。
Dem Senate candidate calls to ‘shut the White House down,’ impeach 2 Supreme Court justices
April 22, 2026 1:17pm EDT / Fox News
The progressive candidate also called for impeaching Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito
By Robert McGreevy, Fox News
Graham Platner, the frontrunner 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.
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“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.”
Senatorial candidate Graham Platner speaks at a town hall at the Leavitt Theater in Ogunquit, Maine, on Oct. 22, 2025.(Sophie Park/Getty Images)
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 exemption stems from Judicial Conference guidance which states that “personal hospitality” from a friend does not need to be reported if the friend did not have business before the court.
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“Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years,” Thomas said in a statement at the time.
“As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them. Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable,” he wrote.
The report also revealed that Thomas sold a trio of Savannah, Georgia, homes to Crow for $133,000 in 2014. Thomas said he did not list the sales because, after spending over $50,000 on renovations to one of the homes, the sale amounted to a financial loss.
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Platner did not specify in the interview what he believed Alito should be impeached for.
In 2023, Alito defended himself from criticisms over a 2009 trip he took on a private jet paid for by billionaire Paul Singer. Alito did not disclose the trip or recuse himself from future business Singer had in front of the Supreme Court. Alito argued that the trip “would not cause a reasonable and unbiased person to doubt my ability to decide the matters in question impartially.”
Thomas is not the only Supreme Court Justice to amend his financial disclosures.
In 2021, Justice Sonia Sotomayor updated her 2016 disclosure to include six trips to public universities paid for by the schools that she’d previously omitted. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson also updated a decade’s worth of disclosures during her nomination process. Omissions included her husband’s consulting income, her teacher’s salary and a gift she incurred from giving a speech.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke at the 60th commemoration of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., on Sept. 15, 2023. The bombing in 1963 killed Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley.(Butch Dill – Pool/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital asked Platner’s campaign if he 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 the Democrats should support an expansion of the Supreme Court, telling NBC that he’s “definitely open to doing more, including to adding seats.”
While stating he supported the judicial impeachments, Platner added that the Democrats should not waste their time on impeaching President Donald Trump.
“If we don’t have the votes in the Senate to convict, I don’t think we should waste our time with it,” he told the outlet.
Graham Platner points to a covered tattoo that was previously recognized as a Nazi symbol during an interview in Portland, Maine, on Oct. 22, 2025.(WGME via AP)
He also said that he does not want to see Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., repeat his term as the Democrats’ leader in the Senate. Schumer has publicly backed Maine Gov. Janet Mills, Platner’s primary opponent.
Platner floated 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 backed by Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. He’s a combat veteran who did three tours in Iraq as a Marine and a tour in Afghanistan with the Maine National Guard.
He’s currently leading in the polls against both his Democratic primary opponent Mills and the incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. But his campaign has not been entirely smooth sailing.
He’s had to confront numerous controversies in recent months, most notably perhaps the revelation that he once sported a large chest tattoo that resembled Nazi iconography.
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In October, Platner covered up a skull-and-crossbones tattoo on his chest that strongly resembled the Totenkopf symbol used by Hitler’s SS forces. Platner claimed he got the tattoo as a veteran while drunk in Croatia and didn’t know it was akin to the Nazi symbol until media reports in 2024. He says he plans to remove it.
Platner also fessed up to running an edgy Reddit account that reportedly disparaged Black people and police and praised a raid executed by Hamas terrorists.
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