Whitehouse's Absurd Attack on Alito Is Another Democrat Attack on the Constitution
Whitehouse, an old Yankee trust-fund baby and a descendent of Plymouth Colony Puritans, is trying to play the ethical purity card against Alito, the New Jersey son of an Italian immigrant from Calabria. It should be interesting. A battle as old as the country is brewing, a classic struggle between old nose-in-the-air money trying to shut up those nose-to-the-grindstone children of immigrants who don’t know their place.
In his usual blowhard way, the posturing Whitehouse sent a lengthy, whining letter making an ethics complaint to Chief Justice John Roberts. “I write to lodge an ethics complaint regarding recent public comments by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, which appear to violate several canons of judicial ethics, including standards the Supreme Court has long applied to itself.”
Whitehouse complains that Alito gave an interview with the Wall Street Journal, directly rejecting the crusade to place the judicial branch under the direct supervision of the legislative branch in general and Whitehouse’s committee in particular. Whitehouse says, “During the interview, Justice Alito stated that ‘[n]o provision in the Constitution gives [Congress] the authority to regulate the Supreme Court—period.’”
Poor Sheldon. He wants to create an election-year issue to demonize Republican appointees on the Supreme Court. He expected Alito to stand by and take it like a department store dummy. Instead, Alito told him to shove it where the sun doesn’t shine — in polite legal jargon, of course. How unethical. Not something that Whitehouse would hear at the yacht and beach club he sometimes goes to with family members, which caused such a “lack of diversity” hubbub a few years ago.
The question remains. Is it unethical to defend the Supreme Court’s independence from legal nitwits like Whitehouse, who want it to be a leftist super-legislature?
Whitehouse’s complaint is pure politics devoid of content despite the five pages of legal mumbo jumbo he supplies to dress it up in judicial satin and lace.
He pulled the same stunt during the Amy Coney Barrett nomination with his endless rant and posterboard displays about dark money in politics. He discredited his own credibility when he named various Republican political groups but left out the Arabella Advisors, a Democrat $1.2 billion dark money group that had more cash than the Republican and Democrat National Committees combined. For Whitehouse, Democrats are always above reproach because their aims are so lofty. Oh my.