Lankford and Coons will investigate Slutkin's seditious statements

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A government watchdog group has filed a Senate ethics complaint against Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), arguing that her call to deter young people from working for President Donald Trump crossed the line from political criticism into threats against public service.

The Center to Advance Security in America shared the complaint exclusively with the Washington Examiner. The document, dated Tuesday, asks Senate Ethics Committee Chairman James Lankford (R-OK) and Vice Chairman Chris Coons (D-DE) to investigate whether Slotkin’s remarks violated Senate ethical standards.

“Senator Slotkin’s recent statement that young professionals should be deterred from joining the Trump administration is extremely troubling and a potential violation of Senate Ethics rules,” CASA Director James Fitzpatrick told the Washington Examiner. “U.S. Senators must conduct themselves with proper ethics and morality at all times.”

Slotkin made the remarks during an Oct. 13 University of Chicago event with Vox editorial director Astead Herndon. She advocated pursuing “signature cases” involving Trump and those around him.

“I want to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president but on the people who enabled him,” Slotkin said, according to the complaint.

She said she wanted young people considering administration jobs to worry that doing so “might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want.”

“I want that deterrence message sent,” she said.

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