It’s difficult to square Dick Durbin’s pledge with his stated inability to issue subpoenas for Clarence Thomas — or any other reluctant witness. (via Deadline: Legal Blog)
that “everything is on the table when it comes to Supreme Court ethics reform” and since the court “won’t act,” his committee will.
In the end, whether it’s a subpoena for Thomas, his benefactor or anyone else, until the committee has a working majority in the eyes of its chair, it’s hard to see how everything is “on the table.”
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