GOP megadonor Harlan Crow declines to answer Democrats’ questions about financial ties to Clarence Thomas

A lawyer for GOP megadonor Harlan Crow told Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin that his committee did not have “the authority to investigate Mr. Crow’s personal friendship with Justice Clarence Thomas,” in a letter Monday night obtained by CNN.

Crow declined to answer specific questions from Durbin and other Democrats on the committee, according to the letter.