Senate Dem doubles down on old Alito complaint as SCOTUS nears Trump immunity ruling
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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.
"In that interview, you opined on questions related to Congress's authority over judicial, and more specifically Supreme Court, ethics concerns," the three-term Rhode Island Democrat recalled in his June 7 letter. Julia Johnson is a politics writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, leading coverage of the U.S. Senate. She was previously a politics reporter at the Washington Examiner.
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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.
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