He can't ignore them forever.
Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images and United States House of Representatives.of right-wing legal affairs, is currently about a month and a half into defying an April 11 Senate subpoena. The Senate Judiciary Committee seeks his testimony under oath about gifts, including luxury trips, he has helped to arrange for multiple Supreme Court justices and their families.
Leo is an astoundingly powerful political figure who controls billions of dollars and an array of political front groups. Most importantly, he is the co-chairman of the board of the Federalist Society, the highly influential right-wing legal network. In the Trump administration, Leo played a primary role in picking justices for the Supreme Court—Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett—as well as almost every other federal judge appointed to lower benches.
The Senate has subpoenaed Leo to learn the facts about the lavish travel, lodging, and transportation gifts he arranged for Supreme Court justices, most notably Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni, and Samuel Alito. In 2008, for example, Leo organized a trip to Alaska that included a private jet flight for Alito, paid for by Paul Singer, a hedge fund billionaire and Leo donor with interests before the court.
Leo’s brazen defense explaining why he is not complying with the subpoena is that it is “lawless.” In a bit of flagrant projection, he said the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation of judicial corruption was nothing but “the left’s dark money effort to silence and cancel political opposition.”A duly authorized Senate subpoena is not “lawless.” Nor is the Senate committee a “dark money effort.
to bill $100,000 to the Judicial Education Project—a nonprofit group Leo advised, which was to become a landmark supplier of conservative amicus briefs to the Supreme Court—and then to funnel that exact money to Ginni Thomas. Leo told Conway that the paperwork should have “no mention of Ginni, of course.” Conway’s firm went on to pay Thomas’ firm $80,000 from 2011 to mid-2012 and another $20,000 by year’s end.
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