The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to subpoena Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo in a transfer that threatens to show GOP corruption.
Senate Judiciary Democrats introduced:
BREAKING: the Senate Judiciary Committee authorizes subpoenas for Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo referring to its Supreme Courtroom ethics investigation.
— Senate Judiciary Committee (@JudiciaryDems) November 30, 2023
Senate Judiciary Chair Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) has been signaling that the subpoenas have been coming for the previous couple of weeks. Crow and Leo have refused to cooperate with the Judiciary Committee investigation into the Supreme Courtroom corruption scandal.
Republicans are already vowing revenge for the subpoenas, and Chief Justice John Roberts tried to move off a full-blown congressional investigation by having the court docket undertake a set of voluntary ethics guidelines that comprise no mechanism for enforcement.
A Senate investigation into the items being taken by conservative Supreme Courtroom justices from rich billionaires is horrible information for Clarence Thomas and the opposite justices within the majority. Justice Thomas seems to have been on the take from conservative billionaires for many years, and a full investigation might reveal sufficient grounds to justify impeachment.
Senate Judiciary Democrats are shifting incrementally, however forcefully ahead on an investigation that might rock the Supreme Courtroom and supply a problem for the 2024 election.
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