Conservative legal activist Leonard Leo declined to turn over details on any travel, gifts, or payments involving Supreme Court justices, instead decrying the request from the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats as “political retaliation.”
Leo faced a Tuesday deadline to provide documents to Democratic Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) and Dick Durbin (IL) about any financial relationships he’s had with justices, but through his legal counsel, Leo argued the committee’s inquiry “exceeds the limits” of the constitution and was designed to vilify him for his “lawful public advocacy.”