{"id":1982907,"date":"2023-07-26T08:25:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T12:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-attempts-to-get-conservative-activists-records-slammed-as-modern-day-mccarthyism-2\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T08:27:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T12:27:03","slug":"senate-democrats-attempts-to-get-conservative-activists-records-slammed-as-modern-day-mccarthyism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-attempts-to-get-conservative-activists-records-slammed-as-modern-day-mccarthyism-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats&#8217; pursuit of conservative activist&#8217;s records criticized as &#8216;McCarthyism 2.0&#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\">22<\/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-2%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=1982907&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 Democrats&#8217; \u200cAttempt to Obtain Information on Supreme Court Justices Criticized as &#8220;Modern-Day McCarthyism&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>The \u2063Senate Democrats&#8217; recent efforts to acquire information regarding the travel, gifts, and payments involving \u2064Supreme Court justices have sparked controversy and are being compared to\u200b &#8220;modern-day McCarthyism.&#8221;\u200c Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/must-watch-foxs-maccallum-blisters-national-teachers-union-president-on-alleged-influence-on-biden-critical-race-theory-1619-project\/\" title=\"MUST-WATCH: Fox\u2019s MacCallum Blisters National Teachers Union President On Alleged Influence On Biden, Critical Race Theory, 1619 Project\">strongly criticized<\/a> the Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee for their request, accusing them \u200bof attempting to punish and silence\u200b conservative legal \u2063activist\u2062 Leonard Leo. Leo, in response, declined to provide the requested documents in a \u200dletter to the committee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Senators Whitehouse and\u200c Durbin don&#8217;t like anything about Leonard Leo&#8217;s political views, and that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s a top target on their &#8216;enemies list,'&#8221; Severino tweeted.\u2064 &#8220;Their modern-day McCarthyism is an attempt to punish and silence Leo and anyone who agrees with\u200c him. It&#8217;s not going to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leonard Leo had until Tuesday\u2062 to comply with the information \u2062request made by Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Dick Durbin (D-IL). However, he rejected \u200cthe demand, citing\u200b an infringement \u2062on his \u200dconstitutional rights, including his First Amendment right to free\u200b speech. In a letter to the Senate Democrats, <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 Leo, who is also the co-chairman of \u2064the Federalist Society, denounced the request as &#8220;political retaliation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Durbin and Whitehouse initially\u2062 requested the information earlier this month, stating that \u200cthey were seeking information from Leo and two\u200d &#8220;right<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-attempts-to-get-conservative-activists-records-slammed-as-modern-day-mccarthyism-2\/\" title=\"Senate Democrats' pursuit of conservative activist's records criticized as 'McCarthyism 2.0'\">-wing billionaires implicated<\/a> in recent \u2062reporting \u2064on\u2063 the Supreme Court&#8217;s ethics crisis.&#8221; They emphasized the need for Congress\u2062 to investigate and address the ethics concerns surrounding the Supreme Court, as they believe\u200d Chief Justice Roberts has not taken sufficient action.<\/p>\n<p>The increased scrutiny from Democrats\u200b on the high court\u200c follows\u2062 reports of \u200dalleged unethical \u200dbehavior by Justices Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, and \u200cClarence Thomas, <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'.\">including accepting undisclosed gifts<\/a>. These reports have \u2063sparked a wave \u200cof accusations and investigations. However, all justices have denied\u2062 any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats&#8217; \u200dheightened\u2064 focus on the Supreme Court also \u200ccoincides with their dissatisfaction over recent decisions made by the \u2062Court,\u200d particularly\u200b those\u200d related to abortion, 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>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click\u2062 here<\/a> to \u200cread more from The Washington\u200d Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats&#8217; request for information from Leonard Leo, a conservative legal activist, regarding Supreme Court justices&#8217; travel, gifts, and payments is condemned as &#8220;modern-day McCarthyism.&#8221; Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network, criticizes the Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee, deeming their inquiry into Leo&#8217;s activities an &#8220;attempt to.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1982908,"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-1982907","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\/1982907","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=1982907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}