Tag: Leo, Leonard A

Clarence Thomas’s Clerks: An ‘Extended Family’ With Reach and Power

In late August, amid a rising outcry over revelations that Justice Clarence Thomas had received decades of undisclosed gifts and free luxury travel, a lawyer in Chicago fired off an email to her fellow former Thomas clerks. “Many of us have been asked recently about the justice,” wrote the lawyer, Taylor Meehan. “In response, there’s […]

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Senate Panel Approves Subpoenas for Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow

The Senate Judiciary Committee authorized subpoenas on Thursday for conservative allies of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., acting over angry objections from Republicans to secure more information about luxury travel, gifts and other benefits provided to members of the Supreme Court. The panel concluded an acrimonious session with Republicans storming out as […]

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Senate Panel Punts Effort to Force Testimony in Supreme Court Ethics Inquiry

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday abruptly put off its push to subpoena two conservative allies of Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas as part of a Supreme Court ethics inquiry that has met stiff resistance from Republicans. Facing G.O.P. threats to engage in a bitter, drawn-out fight, Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat […]

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Trump’s Allies Want a New Breed of Lawyer if He Returns to Power

Close allies of Donald J. Trump are preparing to populate a new administration with a more aggressive breed of right-wing lawyer, dispensing with traditional conservatives who they believe stymied his agenda in his first term. The allies have been drawing up lists of lawyers they view as ideologically and temperamentally suited to serve in a […]

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