Senate Democrats Approve Subpoenas for Leo, Crow in Inquiry (2)

Senate Democrats voted to subpoena Texas billionaire Harlan Crow and conservative fundraiser Leonard Leo as part of its ongoing investigation into the ethics scandal swirling around the US Supreme Court.

The move came after hours of bickering with Republicans, who claimed the committee’s efforts amounted to a political vendetta against the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin pulled a surprise procedural maneuver to authorize the subpoenas over GOP protests, leading nearly all the Republicans on the committee to walk out of the hearing room.

Democrats said the party-line vote authorizing subpoenas for Crow and Leo was ...