Billionaire Leonard Leo rejects Senate subpoena over supreme court gifts
The Guardian -

Progressive groups hail long-brewed move against influential donor but protest lack of summons for Harlan CrowThe big-money rightwing donor Leonard Leo said he would not comply with a subpoena issued by the US Senate judiciary committee, as it investigates undisclosed gifts to conservative supreme court justices that have stoked an ethics crisis at a court already held in historically low public esteem.Referring to Dick Durbin, the Illinois Democrat who chairs the committee, Leo said: “I am not...

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