Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse:
The issue is probably not Harlan Crow.
I don't see that Harlan Crow is in trouble for any of this, unless false statements were filed of some kind. But we have no indication of that.
The problem is on the court side. Supreme Court justices, like other judges, have an obligation to file disclosures that show what gifts and emoluments and so forth they have received. And that legal obligation, a law passed by Congress, is implemented by the Judicial Conference, a body created by Congress for that purpose, among others.
So we need to look into whether those laws are being properly implemented by the Judicial Conference should these big gifts have been disclosed, and how do the arguments that they didn't need to be disclosed fare when shone to the light of day? And my contention is, the arguments fare terribly when shone to the light of day.
The gifts should have been disclosed. And, potentially, because of the systematic nature of these gifts and the repeated nature of these gifts, there may be a good deal more to this than just come on my yacht and have a nice afternoon.
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