Harlan Crow refuses to cooperate with Dem senators’ Supreme Court probe

Real-estate billionaire and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, who has come under fire for his mysterious relationship with Justice Clarence Thomas, is refusing to cooperate with a Senate Judiciary Committee probe.

In a Monday night letter to Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin, obtained by POLITICO, Crow’s lawyer said the panel did not have “the authority to investigate Mr. Crow’s personal friendship with” Thomas. Crow declined to answer questions from Durbin and other Democrats about the developer’s relationship with and pattern of expensive gifts to the Supreme Court justice.