The conservative judicial activist called the move “politically motivated,” while the committee chair said Leo had left the committee “no other choice” but to move forward with the compulsory process
Leonard Leo, seen here in November 2016, was issued the subpoena on Thursday and rejected it the same day. The Senate Judiciary Committee sent a subpoena Thursday to conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo as part of a months-long inquiry into undisclosed gifts to Supreme Court justices and he promptly rejected it, calling the move “politically motivated.”
The committee voted along party lines on Nov. 30 to subpoena Leo and Texas billionaire Harlan Crow following reports that Supreme Court JusticesCrow did not receive a subpoena on Thursday, his spokesman Michael Zona told The Post.“Since July 2023, Leonard Leo has responded to the legitimate oversight requests of the Senate Judiciary Committee with a blanket refusal to cooperate,” Durbin said.
The committee did not respond when asked for comment on why only Leo received a subpoena. And when asked why so much time elapsed between the vote and Leo’s subpoena being sent, Durbin’s office declined to expand beyond his original statement.David B. Rivkin, an attorney for Leo, said in a letter addressed to Durbin and dated Thursday that Leo would not comply with the committee’s “unlawful and politically motivated subpoena.
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