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They should be investigated as well.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee abruptly adjourned a meeting on Thursday without holding an expected vote on subpoenas for two conservatives who have helped arrange luxury travel and other benefits for Supreme Court justices.
Leo is a Federalist Society executive who worked with President Donald Trump to move the court and the rest of the federal judiciary to the right.
The committee had also planned to vote on a subpoena for another wealthy Republican donor, Robin Arkley II, who helped arrange and pay for a private jet trip to Alaska for Justice Samuel Alito in 2008.
“We will still go forward, now that we have seen this strategy, with unified support on the Democratic side for getting to the bottom of what is going on with this pattern of secret billionaire gifts to justices,” Whitehouse said.
Republicans are united in opposition to the subpoenas, and all of them voted against legislation passed by the panel in July that would force the justices to abide by stronger ethics standards.
Responding to the GOP protest, Durbin said at the meeting that the committee is not pursuing a vendetta against conservatives but that “Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow are central players in the ethics challenge facing the court.”
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