- Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee sent out a letter to Harlan Crow on Monday.
- The letter asks Crow to note any presents he’s provided to a Supreme Court justice or their household worth more than $415.
- The letter follows reporting from ProPublica recording the lots of holidays Crow’s spent for with Justice Clarence Thomas.
On Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee asked GOP megadonor Harlan Crow to record the presents he’s provided to Supreme Court justices and their households throughout the years.
The Judiciary Committee sent its letter to Crow a week after it held a hearing on principles reform for the Supreme Court, which Chief Justice John Roberts decreased to go to Senate Financing Committee Chairman Ron Wyden formerly sent out a comparable letter to Crow in late April asking him to note any presents he ‘d provided to Justice Clarence Thomas, and eventually got an “obstructive letter,” according to NBC News
In the committee’s letter to Crow, it requested for him to list:
- All presents and products provided to justices and their households that deserved more than $415
- Realty deals in between Crow and Supreme Court justices and their households
- Any transport or accommodations that Crow offered to a justice or their household
- At any times when Crow offered a justice or their household access to a “personal, members-only club”
The committee hearing was stimulated by a report from the investigative outlet ProPublica, which exposed that Crow spent for luxurious holidays and travel on personal jets and luxury yachts with Thomas and his partner, Ginni. Even more reporting from ProPublica discovered that Crow acquired the house Thomas’ mom lives in, and formerly spent for a kid in Thomas’ custody to go to a $6,000 each month personal boarding school.
Because ProPublica’s discoveries, Crow has actually declared he’s the victim of a “ political hit task.”
” I believe that the media, and this ProPublica group in specific, moneyed by leftists, has a program to destabilize the Court. What they have actually done is not genuine. It does not have stability,” Crow informed the Dallas Early Morning News “They have actually done a respectable task in the recently or more of unjustly knocking me and more significantly than that, unjustly knocking Justice Thomas.”