{"id":1982881,"date":"2023-07-26T08:02:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T12:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-attempts-to-get-conservative-activists-records-slammed-as-modern-day-mccarthyism\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T08:03:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T12:03:45","slug":"senate-democrats-attempts-to-get-conservative-activists-records-slammed-as-modern-day-mccarthyism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-attempts-to-get-conservative-activists-records-slammed-as-modern-day-mccarthyism\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats&#8217; efforts to obtain the records of a conservative activist criticized as &#8216;modern-day McCarthyism&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-democrats-attempts-to-get-conservative-activists-records-slammed-as-modern-day-mccarthyism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1982881&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Senate\u200b Democrats&#8217; Attempt to \u2064Obtain Information on\u200b Supreme Court\u2064 Justices Criticized as &#8220;Modern-Day McCarthyism&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>The Senate Democrats&#8217; recent efforts to \u2064obtain information on travel, gifts, and payments involving Supreme Court justices have \u200bsparked controversy and accusations of &#8220;modern-day McCarthyism.&#8221; Conservative legal activist Leonard Leo, \u200cwho was targeted by the request, has refused \u200dto comply, leading to further criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Carrie Severino, \u2063president of\u2062 the JCN, expressed her disapproval of the Democrat-controlled Senate \u2064Judiciary Committee&#8217;s actions, describing them as an &#8220;attempt to punish and silence&#8221; Leo. Severino took to Twitter to condemn what she sees\u2062 as a deliberate targeting of Leo and anyone who shares his political views.<\/p>\n<p>Leo, in a letter to the committee, declined to provide the requested documents, citing the infringement of his constitutional rights, including his First Amendment right to free \u200cspeech. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fncs-carlson-if-youre-looking-for-election-rigging-look-no-further-than-media-treatment-of-hunter-biden-saga\/\" title=\"FNC's Carlson: 'If You're Looking for Election Rigging, Look No Further' Than Media Treatment of Hunter Biden Saga\">legal counsel<\/a> for the \u2063co-chairman of \u2063the Federalist Society also denounced the request as \u2062&#8221;political retaliation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Democrats Seek Information Amidst Ethics Concerns<\/h3>\n<p>Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) initially requested the information from Leo, along with two &#8220;right-wing billionaires implicated in recent reporting on the Supreme Court&#8217;s ethics\u200c crisis.&#8221; The senators expressed their concerns about the lack of action from Chief Justice Roberts in addressing \u200dthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-attempts-to-get-conservative-activists-records-slammed-as-modern-day-mccarthyism\/\" title=\"Senate Democrats' efforts to obtain the records of a conservative activist criticized as 'modern-day McCarthyism'.\">alleged ethics crises surrounding<\/a> the Court.<\/p>\n<p>Increased \u2063scrutiny on the Supreme Court from Democrats follows reports of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-prepare-to-push-doomed-supreme-court-ethics-bill-to-spark-voter-interest\/\" title=\"Senate Democrats plan to introduce a Supreme Court ethics bill, despite its expected failure, in an effort to engage voters.\">alleged unethical behavior<\/a> by Justices Samuel Alito, Sonia \u200cSotomayor, and Clarence Thomas, including accepting undisclosed gifts.\u200d These reports have sparked a wave of accusations and denials from the justices.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Democrats&#8217;\u2064 heightened scrutiny of the Court aligns with their dissatisfaction with recent decisions on \u200babortion, affirmative action, and President Joe Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/browbeating-the-white-house-stacey-abrams-warnock-pushing-biden-on-student-loan-forgiveness-to-fire-up-base-report\/\" title=\"\u2018Browbeating The White House\u2019: Stacey Abrams, Warnock Pushing Biden On Student Loan Forgiveness To Fire Up Base: Report\">student loan forgiveness plan<\/a>, among other issues.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the Senate\u200c Democrats&#8217; pursuit of information on Supreme \u2064Court justices has ignited a heated debate, with critics labeling it as &#8220;modern-day McCarthyism&#8221; and defenders arguing for transparency \u2063and accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats&#8217; request for conservative activist Leonard Leo to disclose details of Supreme Court justices&#8217; travel, gifts, and payments is condemned as &#8220;modern-day McCarthyism.&#8221; Carrie Severino, JCN president, criticizes the Democrat-led Senate Judiciary Committee, accusing them of seeking to punish and retaliate against Leo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1982882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}