Harlan Crow, the conservative billionaire who bestowed luxurious trips and private real estate deals on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his family,...
He has repeatedly refused demands from Democratic chairmen of two Senate committees for detailed information about gifts and transactions benefiting the conservative high court justice, declaring the activity no business of Congress. Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, a senior member of both panels, said a subpoena “is highly likely in both cases.
The partisan cast of the controversy over Crow’s gifts and the increasingly common use of filibusters to thwart Senate action appears to be emboldening Crow and his advisers, Kelner said. If Crow doesn’t comply with a committee subpoena, the Senate would have to vote to take Crow to court to force him to turn over information. There is no precedent for filibustering such an action.
Such a precedent risks weakening Senate committees’ ability to uncover private-sector abuses and to force unwilling business executives to answer for conduct before the public, said Ronald Weich, a former legal counsel for Senator Ted Kennedy and later then-Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid.
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