“Congratulations on destroying the United States Senate Judiciary Committee,” said Sen.
John Cornyn (R-TX) to Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-IL) during a tense meeting.
The committee voted on federal judge nominees and debated subpoenaing Republican donor Harlan Crow and judicial activist Leonard Leo as part of a probe into alleged unethical financial gifts provided to Supreme Court justices.
At the end of the meeting, the committee voted to authorize the subpoenas.
No Republicans were in the room for the vote.