He's being enabled
Mr. Emoluments is only causing havoc because his so-called party won't look past the well-poisoning lifetime judicial appointments they love so much and call out the graft and corruption that they're getting, too.
Why would Pai feel obliged to behave any better when he has the example of the executive and its leader to follow, and can see the lack of consequences? He obviously doesn't care about bad press; it's just "fake news".