Billionaire Leonard Leo rejects Senate subpoena over supreme court gifts

31 comments

1. Arrest his ass!

2. Toss him in a cell. He can keep Navarro warm at night.

3. Ahhh a billionaire to boot.

   In the 765 club

   Edit: correction 756 billionaires in 🇺🇸

   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_the_number_of_billionaires#:~:text=This%20is%20a%20list%20of,43%20of%20the%2050%20states.

4. The GOP sent a signal loud and clear… it’s okay to defy the government if you have enough money

5. Good. He can share a cell with Navarro.

   Except I forgot about the precedent set by the (little) People vs Rich Guy Rules and Go Fuck Yourself. Gee, I wonder how the SCOTUS will rule on the appeal?

6. What’s crazy to me is how it’s such a coincidence that the right is always using extreme language now. It’s almost like there was a breaking point say 7 years ago where it became acceptable to take the extreme language dial to 11.

   Where is the civility of old? The “No sir, I shall respectfully decline your invitation”.

   I miss those days.

7. Let’s see how SCOTUS judges this when it comes for the supreme court.

8. “Rejects subpoena”. As if these are just optional. Let the slow wheels of justice turn.

9. This is the one where you send the Sergeant at Arms to collect him. Fuck allowing the court system to save his rich ass. Use the peoples’ power to hold this fuck accountable because we know the courts will not do so.

10. Put this guy in jail for contempt of congress. He has the dirtiest hands in the country.

    https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-podcast

11. A subpoena means nothing if you yourself can decide whether it’s valid and whether you yourself should have gotten one

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13. (Rs) cried that Durbin was destroying the panel’s legitimacy (my paraphrase)

14. Can you subpoena your ruling class?

15. Funny, because the committee seems to think the subpoena is “compulsory”.

    >Durbin said: “Since July 2023, Leonard Leo has responded to the legitimate oversight requests of the Senate judiciary committee with a blanket refusal to cooperate. His outright defiance left the committee with no other choice but to move forward with compulsory process. For that reason, I have issued a subpoena to Mr Leo.

16. Wait. That’s an option? We can just reject a lawful subpoena? I will try this next time I’m served papers.

17. I wonder if a poor person rejected a subpoena what would happen.

18. The billionaires are at about 95% spectrum dominance of the entire US.

    And all they can think about is that last 5%.

19. Finally a legitimate case for a No Knock Warrant

20. Hold him in contempt

21. Straight to jail with you, motherfucker

22. Ah, the old “I’m a billionaire with 2 supreme court judges on my payroll so laws don’t apply to me” defense.

23. As Peter Navarro looks on and cries in his prison cell

24. This is the enemy, not those with other political opinions from yours.

25. When you’re rich, they let you do it.

26. Congressional subpoenas are a joke thanks to Congressional Republicans showing the planet that they don’t even take their own subpoenas seriously. Not to mention, we’ve been light on the consequences for the few we did hold to account.

27. Billionaires doing billionaire things. Just another Friday in America.

28. We don’t tax our billionaires nearly enough.

29. Party of law and order

30. Must be so wild to be a billionaire. Congressional subpoena? Nah I’m good. With enough money you’re literally untouchable, except maybe in Vietnam.

    Edit for wrong country

31. Subpoenas are publicly optional now if you have enough money?
    Everyone should take note that they’re being even more blatant about it.

    They’re going to force our hand soon. If the government isn’t going to govern on our behalf, we’re going to have to set up a new one.