Billionaire Crow Refuses Latest Senate Request on Justice Thomas

Harlan Crow, a billionaire Republican donor, has refused a second request by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden to answer questions about gifts and travel he provided to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

The committee doesn’t have authority to make demands about Crow’s friendship with Thomas when other sources could provide Congress the information, Crow’s attorney Michael Bopp said in a letter obtained by Bloomberg News. Wyden sent his letter to Crow on May 17.

“A desire to focus on Justice Thomas, not the intricacies of the gift tax, appears to have been the genesis of this ...