Our judicial system was created as the third branch of our government to uphold laws and see that justice prevails. It was not designed to be corrupted into a political tool, used as a weapon to persecute, intimidate and silence individuals and groups over mere differences of opinion,” Whitaker contended in a 2016 op-ed. Whitaker called the investigations “unconstitutional and unethical” and claimed they were an “outright assault on the First Amendment.