Via @emptywheel: 1/...🧵
Maybe #HarlanCrow thinks that, by dint of purchasing himself a #SCOTUS justice, he’s effectively President under the Mazars precedent.
Jay Willis:
Harlan Crow's lawyers fired off a pound-sand letter to the Judiciary Committee explaining why investigating Crow's patronge of Clarence Thomas "raises substantial separation of powers concerns," and all due respect to "Michael D. Bopp" but I don't think this is your call dude.
I mean, we should all be a bit concerned about the implications that Congress is threatening the independence of the judiciary with this pursuit.
I'm glad to see Crow's people standing up for that notion, even if it's because he has a personal interest in supporting that key to the federal design.
@volkris Huh?? MY concern, a big one, is that fascist Republicans are threatening the independence of our judiciary, not Dems in Congress. Wow. @emptywheel
But they're the Dems in Congress that are actually moving against the Supreme Court and calling for more interference in the other branch.
I don't hear Republicans making these demands of the judiciary.
The letter here details that.
