“The Avengers” actor Mark Ruffalo took aim at the Supreme Court on Saturday, claiming that recent decisions had proven it is a “right-wing ideological political institution” and demanding that the legislative and executive branches act to control it.

Ruffalo delivered his message in a couple of tweets, responding to a HuffPost article that accused the current Court of effectively “rolling back the 20th century.” The article highlighted several recent decisions the author viewed as regressive — namely, the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the decision axing affirmative action in the college admissions process, the decision that killed Biden’s student loan forgiveness program, and the 303 Creative decision that came down last week.

“Okay. So we all understand that the Supreme Court has become a right-wing ideological political institution under Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett, Kavanaugh, & Roberts,” Ruffalo declared. “They’re for sale & illegitimate. Now, we have to beat them in the executive branch & the legislature.”

Organize the vote. They're taking us backward. We have already left them behind. Now we keep building people's power. We have the people. We are far more mighty. Hold on tight & keep organizing. Drown out the noise. Keep pushing forward. The only way to freedom is forward.

— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) July 1, 2023

“Organize the vote. They’re taking us backward. We have already left them behind. Now we keep building people’s power. We have the people. We are far more mighty. Hold on tight & keep organizing. Drown out the noise. Keep pushing forward. The only way to freedom is forward,” he continued.

But not everyone was sure Ruffalo had the right idea. Critics quickly responded to his tweets, reminding him that he had not had a problem with a left-leaning court that delivered decisions he agreed with.

“It used to be a left-wing ideological political institution, but you were fine with that,” one said.

“Sounds awful sedition-y there, kiddo, to say a co-equal branch of government is illegitimate,” another tweeted. “It would be a lot easier for you to just say you are throwing a tantrum because you don’t like the Constitution.”

“Guy who gets paid tens of millions to be a CGI voice over would like to school the peasants on the glorious future that socialism will create for us. He keeps his money of course. That’s just assumed,” added a third.

A couple of Ruffalo’s fellow actors weighed in as well.

“Not all actors are like this, I promise,” Matthew Marsden assured his followers.

Not all actors are like this, I promise. https://t.co/hQHdgofrJN

— Matthew Marsden (@matthewdmarsden) July 1, 2023

Robert Davi added, “We must make sure celebrities hear from everyday working Americans and not the indoctrinated haters the education system has infected – Will all express either your support or disagreement with @MarkRuffalo and Why ??!!”

We must make sure celebrities hear from everyday working Americans and not the indoctrinated haters the education system has infected – Will all express either your support or disagreement with @MarkRuffalo and Why ??!! https://t.co/nt5dZvPBjr

— Robert Davi (@RobertJohnDavi) July 1, 2023

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested Congress should consider using subpoena power to force Supreme Court Justice John Roberts to testify before lawmakers about ethics issues.

The Democrat-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee “is beginning the process of investigating the entanglements and conflicts of interest,” the congresswoman said during an interview with CNN that aired Sunday morning.

“I believe that if Chief John Roberts will not come before Congress for an investigation voluntarily, I believe that we should be considering subpoenas,” she added later.

AOC: If Chief Justice Roberts will not come before Congress for an investigation voluntarily, I believe that we should be considering subpoenas… pic.twitter.com/a7XwkQ1oN9

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 2, 2023

The Senate Judiciary Committee asked Roberts to testify about Supreme Court ethics and potential reforms for a hearing in early May, but the chief justice declined the invitation.

At the time, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was on medical leave while recovering from shingles, leaving Democrats without a majority on the panel that could overcome GOP opposition if there was a vote on a subpoena. However, Feinstein has since returned to Capitol Hill.

Ocasio-Cortez, who cited concerns centered on conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, said Congress “must pass much more binding and stringent ethics guidelines.”

“There also must be impeachment on the table,” she added. “We have a broad level of tools to deal with misconduct, overreach, and abuse of power. And the Supreme Court has not been receiving the adequate oversight necessary in order to preserve their own legitimacy. And, in the process, they themselves have been destroying the legitimacy of the court, which is profoundly dangerous for our entire democracy.”

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Ocasio-Cortez also discussed reining in the power held by the nine justices — including the prospect of expanding the Supreme Court — following a series of conservative victories over the past year in rulings focused on abortion access, religious freedom, affirmative action, and President Joe Biden’s student debt plan.

“The courts, if they were to proceed without any check on their power, without any balance on their power, then we will start to see an undemocratic and, frankly, dangerous authoritarian expansion of power in the Supreme Court,” Ocasio-Cortez said, adding, “which is what we are seeing now, from the overturning of abortion rights, to the ruling that discrimination and, frankly, stripping the full personhood and dignity of LGBTQ people in the United States.”

“These are the types of rulings that signal a dangerous creep towards authoritarianism and centralization of power in the court,” she added.