Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) has raised questions about Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s interview with The Wall Street Journal last year, calling it “improper.”
The comment came as congressional Democrats pressed Justice Alito to recuse himself in two pending Trump-related election subversion cases the justices are currently deliberating. One concerns whether former President Donald Trump enjoys presidential immunity for actions taken to dispute the 2020 presidential election; the other concerns whether an accounting reform law may be used to prosecute people who allegedly participated in the security breach at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, during lawmakers’ efforts to certify election results.
