Kennedy was the 'Lion of the Senate'. Whitehouse may be the 'Tiger of the Senate'.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/feb/22/the-scheme-senators-highlight-rightwing-influence-supreme-court
The Scheme: a senators plan to highlight rightwing influence on the supreme court
For almost nine years the Democrat took to the Senate floor every week the chamber was in session to demand that attention be paid to the climate crisis.
But now he has another alarm to sound. The Scheme is a series about the plot by rightwing donor interests to capture the supreme court and achieve through the institutions power what they cannot through other branches of government.
The thread running through Whitehouses spoken essays is that the current 6-3 conservative majority on the court is no accident but the product of special interests and dark money hundreds of millions of dollars in anonymous hidden spending.