Senate Democrats Are Coming For Clarence Thomas's Sugar Daddies

Senate Democrats have announced that the Judiciary Committee will be subpoenaing Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow.

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Senate Democrats Will No Longer Be Played With

U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights announced their plan to subpoena the conservative SCOTUS majority’s money men:

The Supreme Court is in an ethical crisis of its own making.  Thanks to investigative reporting, we now know that for decades, some justices have been joining billionaires with business before the Court on their private planes and yachts or receiving gifts such as private school tuition for a family member.  And it is through this reporting that we learned the justices have not been disclosing these gifts as required by federal laws that expressly apply to them.  By accepting these lavish, und…