We already knew quite a lot about Sheldon Whitehouse, his campaign against the independent judiciary, and his efforts to posture as some sort of "ethics" watchdog for the courts. We knew that Whitehouse is the Senate's leading conspiracy theorist, who threatens judges in the hopes of influencing their decisions and never lets the facts get in his way. We knew that he can't do math. We knew that when Democrats are in power, he calls for governing by "executive Beast Mode." We knew that he has pressured the supposedly nonpartisan Judicial Conference's Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules into trying to ...