{"id":2022128,"date":"2023-09-05T12:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-senator-who-argued-against-investigating-leak-of-alitos-roe-draft-targets-alito\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T12:31:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:31:15","slug":"dem-senator-who-argued-against-investigating-leak-of-alitos-roe-draft-targets-alito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-senator-who-argued-against-investigating-leak-of-alitos-roe-draft-targets-alito\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Senator Opposing Probe of Alito&#8217;s Roe Draft Leak Targets Alito"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-senator-who-argued-against-investigating-leak-of-alitos-roe-draft-targets-alito%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2022128&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Democratic Senator&#8217;s Ethics Complaint \u2064Against \u200cChief Justice John Roberts<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a \u2064surprising turn of events, the Democratic senator who previously\u2063 suggested \u2063that the federal government should not investigate the leak of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito&#8217;s draft opinion on <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> \u200b is now\u2064 pressuring Chief Justice John\u200c Roberts with an ethics complaint. This complaint specifically targets Alito&#8217;s involvement in congressional investigations into the Court.<\/p>\n<h3>Supreme Court\u2064 Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency\u2064 Act<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rhode Island senator \u200bSheldon Whitehouse introduced the\u2064 Supreme \u200bCourt Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act\u200c in\u2064 July, which adds further significance to his complaint against Alito.<\/p>\n<h3>Alito&#8217;s Defense<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alito, speaking to The Wall Street \u200bJournal, defended himself and the other justices on the court, stating that they\u200b voluntarily followed disclosure statutes \u2063applicable to lower-court judges and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wall-street-journal-exposes-massive-runaway-corruption-in-federal-government\/\" title=\"Wall Street Journal Exposes Massive Runaway Corruption in Federal Government\">executive-branch officials<\/a>. He emphasized that \u2064the Constitution, not \u200dCongress, created the Supreme Court, and therefore, Congress lacks the authority to regulate it.<\/p>\n<h3>Whitehouse&#8217;s Complaint<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a seven<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-bidens-lawyer-accuses-house-republicans-of-misinformation-campaign\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden's attorney accuses GOP of spreading misinformation.\">-page letter addressed<\/a> to Chief Justice Roberts, Whitehouse expressed his concerns about Alito&#8217;s actions. He\u2064 stated, &#8220;As the author of the \u2062bill in question and as a participant in the related investigations, I \u200cfeel acutely the targeting of this work by Justice Alito, and consider it more than just misguided or accidental general opining. It is\u2064 directed to my work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whitehouse further alleged that Justice Alito\u2062 may have violated the\u200c financial disclosure requirements of the Ethics in Government Act by accepting undisclosed gifts of travel and lodging. He referred to a report\u200d from the left-leaning group Pro Publica,\u200d suggesting that further investigation could reveal additional information that Alito would prefer to keep hidden.<\/p>\n<h3>Alito&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alito responded to the Pro Publica claims in an article for The Wall Street Journal, defending his actions. He explained that justices commonly interpreted the\u2062 discussion of &#8220;hospitality&#8221; in the context of non-reportable gifts for social events. He clarified that the flight to\u200c Alaska was the only\u200d instance where he accepted transportation for a purely social event, following what he believed to be standard practice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrat-senator-sheldon-whitehouse-faces-backlash-over-membership-to-all-white-club\"><strong>RELATED:\u00a0Dem Sen Whitehouse Faces Backlash Over Membership To Alleged All-White\u00a0Club<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>The Leaked Opinion and Whitehouse&#8217;s Response<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the leaked draft of Alito&#8217;s opinion overturning <em>Roe \u200dv. Wade<\/em> caused a national uproar, Republican Louisiana Senator John Kennedy called for severe\u200b consequences for the leaker. In contrast, Whitehouse argued against FBI involvement\u200d in the investigation, questioning\u2064 the appropriateness of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-senator-who-argued-against-investigating-leak-of-alitos-roe-draft-targets-alito\/\" title=\"Democrat Senator Opposing Probe of Alito's Roe Draft Leak Targets Alito\">executive branch agents interfering<\/a> with \u2064the Supreme Court&#8217;s affairs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">However,\u2062 in his complaint to the Supreme Court, Whitehouse \u200cseemed to reverse his argument. He condemned Justice Alito&#8217;s statement that Congress lacks the authority to regulate the Supreme Court, asserting that \u2064this argument wrongly blocks any congressional action or investigation \u200bin this area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island has proposed an ethics complaint against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, accusing him of interfering with congressional investigations. This comes after Whitehouse previously argued against investigating the leak of Alito&#8217;s draft opinion on Roe v. Wade, citing the principle of separation of powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2022129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}