Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is doubling back to year-old accusations about Justice Samuel Alito's ethics amid an ongoing row over flags flown at the jurist's homes.
A conservative Supreme Court justice is being accused of impropriety by a Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee member ahead of a long-anticipated and pivotal ruling on former President Trump's immunity claim. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has sent a new letter to Justice Samuel Alito, questioning him over an interview he did last year that 'raised several problems.
The latest letter follows correspondence that was recently exchanged between Alito, Whitehouse, Chief Justice John Roberts and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill. The senators wrote to the justices asking for Alito's recusal from cases related to the 2020 election, including the matter of Trump's immunity, because of revelations of an upside-down American flag and an 'Appeal to Heaven' flag displayed at his homes following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Ironically, Whitehouse was recently accused of potentially engaging in ex-parte communications himself, in reference to his various letters to the justices. 'These senators are telling the chief justice, privately, to change the course of pending litigation,' Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said of Whitehouse and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., in a recent floor speech, referring to their demands of Supreme Court justices.
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