Leonard Leo won’t comply with Senate subpoena in probe into gifts to Supreme Court justices
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Conservative legal activist Leonard Leo swiftly rejected a subpoena issued Thursday by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of their investigation into lavish gifts to conservative Supreme Court justices. The committee had voted along party lines in November to authorize subpoenas to Leo and billionaire megadonor Harlan Crow. Democrats on the Judiciary Committee finally acted this week to subpoena Leo; it’s unclear why they did not subpoena Crow. “I am not capitulating to his...

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