Senate panel says the subpoenas are necessary because of 'refusals' from Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow to fully cooperate with its Supreme Court ethics probe.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote to authorize subpoenas for influential conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo and Republican megadonor Harlan Crow.
Crow's friendship with Justice Clarence Thomas is under scrutiny after reports indicating the justice failed to disclose luxury trips and gifts. Thomas has said he had been advised that he did not have to disclose those items. He and Crow have defended their relationship and maintained that it has not affected Thomas' business before the court.
"The Senate and the American people deserve to know the full extent of how billionaires and activists with interests before the Court use their immense wealth to buy private access to the justices," Durbin said Wednesday.
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