Harlan Crow stiffs Judiciary Committee, practically begs for a subpoena – By Jordan Rubin (MSNBC) / May 23, 2023
Clarence Thomas’ benefactor tells Congress that it doesn’t have authority to investigate him and the justice. Let’s find out.
Harlan Crow basically just told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he and Justice Clarence Thomas, and perhaps the Supreme Court itself, are above the law. A subpoena to Crow could test that idea.
The arrogant and misguided claims came from the Texas billionaire’s attorney in a letter dated Monday that was in response to a letter from the committee seeking more information on the Republican megadonor’s previously unreported largesse to Thomas, which has been the subject of controversy ever since it began to be detailed by ProPublica’s bombshell investigative reporting.
Crow’s lawyer, Michael D. Bopp, told the Senate Judiciary Committee in the letter: “After careful consideration, we do not believe the Committee has the authority to investigate Mr. Crow’s personal friendship with Justice Clarence Thomas.” The framing displays the same purposeful naivety that Crow did in an exclusive interview published in The Atlantic on Monday, in which he feigned bewilderment that a Supreme Court justice wasn’t allowed to have friends.
