Senate Democrats subpoena Leonard Leo in Supreme Court ethics probe
Source: CNN Politics
Updated 7:55 PM EDT, Thu April 11, 2024
CNN Senate Democrats on Thursday issued a subpoena to a conservative legal advocate they are investigating in response to a series of ethics controversies at the Supreme Court involving lavish travel and gifts to justices.
Months after voting to authorize the subpoena, the Senate Judiciary Committee formally issued one to Leonard Leo, committee chairman Dick Durbin said. Democrats say the subpoena is necessary to better understand whether specific individuals and groups have used undisclosed gifts to gain access to the justices.
Mr. Leo has played a central role in the ethics crisis plaguing the Supreme Court and, unlike the other recipients of information requests in this matter, he has done nothing but stonewall the committee, Durbin said in a statement to CNN. This subpoena is a direct result of Mr. Leos own actions and choices.
Leo, a prominent conservative legal advocate and board co-chairman of the influential Federalist Society, confirmed Thursday he had been subpoenaed and vowed to not comply. Calling the subpoena unlawful and politically motivated, Leo said in a statement to CNN that he was not capitulating to what he described as the lefts dark money effort to silence and cancel political opposition. Leos attorney, David Rivkin, sent a letter to Durbin asserting that he is not complying with the unlawful and politically motivated subpoena.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/11/politics/leonard-leo-subpoena-supreme-court-ethics-probe/index.html
bucolic_frolic
(43,252 posts)Maybe they can share a cell!
jimfields33
(15,915 posts)JoseBalow
(2,418 posts)dchill
(38,516 posts)Grins
(7,226 posts)Irony takes a holiday when the pros are in town.
Kinda blows all the Law n Order! follow the Constitution squat they have been screaming about for the last 50 years.
republianmushroom
(13,653 posts)mahina
(17,693 posts)an incorrect description, as describing Putin as a Russian head of state is not incorrect, but vastly incomplete.
"This is the 18th time I have come to the floor to expose how dark money operatives, working from the shadows have captured the Supreme Court"...
"A dark money plague that is infesting our democracy, taking the power of decision making away from regular people, putting it into the hands not only of special interests but of special interests who are happy to operate in secret" Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
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Those guys don't go to jail. Just the little people.
Prairie Gates
(1,048 posts)SupportSanity
(171 posts)This might be interesting.
rubbersole
(6,721 posts)...in poisoning American societal wellbeing. And couldn't care less.
oasis
(49,398 posts)dodge.
jvill
(218 posts)Why the Senate Dems aren't investigating the holy hell out of Trump, I'll never understand.
The GOP has come to the gun fight with howitzers, and the Dems are still trying to find out if they can get Dad's permission to bring the rifle.
LET'S GO!! There should be 20 on-going investigations by now!! DEMS, LEARN TO USE THE SENATE!!!
BumRushDaShow
(129,339 posts)They are GOVERNING the US, something that the GOP-controlled House refuses to do.
There are already 4 trials set for 45 overseen by multiple jurisdictions. Meanwhile Senate Democrats are supporting the Biden Administration's many policy initiatives that are now being implemented, as well as going after big corps and exposing them.
The GOP's "weapons" are fake and if you want to believe they are real, then there's not much we can do for you.