- If Senate Democrats plan to subpoena conservative judicial activists as part of a Supreme Court ethics investigation, Republicans say they must go after liberal advocates the same way.
- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) has sought to authorize subpoenas for influential conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, defending the subpoenas as necessary after the pair’s “defensive, dismissive refusals” to cooperate with a congressional investigation. Now, Republicans have proposed more than 150 additional subpoenas to broaden an investigation they say is one-sided against conservative justices on the high court.
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GOP Senators Urged To Copy Democrats, Investigate Groups Attacking Clarence Thomas
** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, AUG. 28 -- FILE ** Supreme Court nominee Judge Clarence Thomas testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Oct. 12, 1991, in Washington. Pointed questioning of nominees--and their frequent dodging and weaving in response--is a relatively new phenomenon in the confirmation of Supreme Court justices. Harlan Fisk Stone in 1925 became the first nominee to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And it wasn't until the mid-1950s that thenotion of a nominee facing a line of questioners became more typical. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, Files)
