Senate Republicans said a subpoena from Democrats to conservative activist Leonard Leo is invalid and unenforceable.
Leo said on Thursday he would not comply with the “unlawful and politically motivated subpoena” he received that day fromtrips or gifts to Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices from wealthy activists they argue went undisclosed. To Republicans, the effort to obtain private records from Leo is invalid, particularly because GOP lawmakers were not present for the roll call vote in November of last year — despite a committee rule requiring two minority members for a quorum.
“The world is on fire, the border is broken, and the Biden administration is completely incompetent on multiple levels,” Sen. Lindsey Graham , GOP ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told the. “Yet the Democrat-led Senate wants to subpoena a private citizen for political clickbait.” In this Nov. 16, 2016, file photo, Federalist Society Executive Vice President Leonard Leo speaks to media at Trump Tower in New York.
That the investigation could violate Leo’s First Amendment rights is an argument the activist’s lawyer, David B. Rivkin, laid out in a letter last year to Durbin. The lawyer said Democrats on the committee were “targeting Mr. Leo out of hostility toward his political views and associations” and had “intensified their rhetorical attacks on Mr. Leo’s conservative views and constitutionally protected speech.”.
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