Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Gets Exposed as ‘Conflicts of Interest’ Hypocrite

Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Gets Exposed as ‘Conflicts of Interest’ Hypocrite

Despite their repeated claims over the last several years that Republicans are dangers to America because of their supposed attempts at “undermining our democratic norms” and delegitimizing “our sacred institutions,” it is Democrats who have absolutely been the worst offenders on that front, as most recently demonstrated by their coordinated attacks on the conservative Supreme Court Justices, falsely accusing them of “conflicts of interest.”

One of the most prominent Democrats leading the radical left’s fight to delegitimize the Supreme Court in its current form has been Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who not only continues to keep hope alive that one day he’ll finally get Justice Brett Kavanaugh impeached from the Supreme Court but who has also literally threatened our nation’s highest court with political retribution if he didn’t get his way on a Second Amendment case they were hearing.

Whitehouse has gone from pathetically grilling Kavanaugh on a high school yearbook fart joke and attacking Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife Ginni over her conservative political activism (falsely accusing her of “a role in the insurrection“) to using conveniently timed hit pieces on Clarence Thomas to push Joe Biden’s Dept. of Justice to investigate Thomas for “potential violations of the Ethics in Government Act,” citing supposed conflicts of interest and failure to disclose.

The problems with Whitehouse’s push for DOJ action on Thomas are twofold. Firstly and most importantly, the “conflict of interest” and “failure to disclose” claims against Thomas are false, as the Wall Street Journal documented in detail here, here, and here.

The second problem is that Whitehouse, not surprisingly, is a “Rules for Thee” Democrat, believing the rules should apply to everyone else but not to him, as explained by Thomas biographer and friend Mark Paoletta in a recent thread:

2/ @SenWhitehouse has introduced many bills that directly benefit @OurOceans mission, such as S. 140, The Blue Globe Act.

— Mark Paoletta (@MarkPaoletta) May 16, 2023

4/ @OurOcean supports bills introduced by @SenWhitehouse, for example Save Our Seas Act 2.0. His wife’s employer directly supports his work.https://t.co/hDjt7qXXbu

— Mark Paoletta (@MarkPaoletta) May 16, 2023

6/ Here’s @SenWhitehouse speaking at an event co-hosted by Ocean Conservancy @OurOceanhttps://t.co/XwusrrP5Y0

— Mark Paoletta (@MarkPaoletta) May 16, 2023

8/ It’s comical that @SenWhitehouse criticizes Justices for alleged conflicts when he is directly assisting his wife’s organization.

— Mark Paoletta (@MarkPaoletta) May 16, 2023

10/ She worked at @AltaSeaOrg at the same time she worked for @OurOcean during years 2016-18. During those three years, she was paid $1.12 million from these two organizations.

— Mark Paoletta (@MarkPaoletta) May 16, 2023

11/ Correction to 1st & 9th tweets on dates of employment – Sandra Whitehouse began working at Ocean Conservancy in 2008 (not 2007). She began working at AltaSea in July 2015 (not 2016)

— Mark Paoletta (@MarkPaoletta) May 16, 2023

Keep in mind, too, that Whitehouse himself once recommended for and got the nomination of a Democrat megadonor to a federal judgeship who just so happened to also have donated to Whitehouse.

Whitehouse, as Legal Insurrection has extensively documented, is a conspiracy nutter and raging hypocrite on multiple fronts. But it’s his bogus attacks on the integrity of the conservative Supreme Court Justices, wrapped within the tattered banners of “transparency” and “accountability,” that are perhaps his most insidious.

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