Sheldon Whitehouse’s history of acting as a judicial ethics watchdog for conservative justices has left some calling the latest ethics complaint ironic
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is in the spotlight over a new ethics complaint about votes that ultimately yielded millions for a green nonprofit that pays his wife’s consulting firm.
Before that, he led an aggressive campaign alleging ethical violations of conservative Supreme Court justices.
The Democratic senator took particular aim at conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after several instances of undisclosed travel and trips were reported in 2023. “The Supreme Court justices are so deeply ensconced in a cocoon of special interest money that they can no longer be trusted to police themselves without proper process,” Whitehouse claimed at the time.