Harlan Crow’s Lawyers Say Congress Doesn’t Have Authority to Investigate Supreme Court
- Harlan Crow’s lawyers argue Senate lacks authority for probe
- Senate Judiciary Chair Durbin lambastes Crow for ‘secrecy’
Harlan Crow
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Harlan Crow, the Texas billionaire and GOP megadonor with close ties to Clarence Thomas, refused to answer questions from a Senate committee about his years of gifts to the Supreme Court justice.
Crow’s lawyers in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee argued that Congress does not have “the authority to investigate Mr. Crow’s personal friendship” with Thomas, according to a copy of the letter reviewed by Bloomberg News.