{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=D5C31813-D16B-44B6-A4E2-B63C75D1E011", "Graham Opposes Judiciary Democrats' Plan to Issue Subpoenas in Latest Attempt to Discredit Supreme Court", "2023-11-02", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "Senate", "SC", "Lindsey Graham", "G000359", "www.lgraham.senate.gov", "graham", "https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today made the following statements about Judiciary Democrats\u2019 plans to issue subpoenas to Harlan Crow, Leonard Leo, and Robin Arkley II, all private citizens.\n\nThe Democrats\u2019 initial requests for information from these individuals earlier this year were overbroad and expansive, far beyond the bounds of any reasonable investigative request. Mr. Crow offered to provide five years of information related to some of these requests, which Democrats did not accept. Mr. Leo and Mr. Arkley declined to provide any information on the grounds that it was beyond the scope of a legitimate legislative inquiry and amounted to harassment of a private citizen.\n\nDemocrats claim this is about oversight, yet it is clear these subpoenas are not about legislative fact finding. Instead, they are part of an effort by liberals opposed to the conservative Supreme Court rulings to get the court to change course. A committee vote on the issuing of subpoenas is expected to occur as early as Thursday, November 9.\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cYou are spending more time trying to \u2018fix\u2019 the Supreme Court than you are the border.\u201d https://youtu.be/aQV2t4B3oxE?si=mcOVIadkB74fDfzk&t=17\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cYou are trying to manage the Supreme Court. I wouldn\u2019t let you manage anything. You are trying to create a political issue that I think crosses constitutional boundaries.\u201d https://youtu.be/aQV2t4B3oxE?si=wjM2w7XO8WO_c2pp&t=38\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cThe border is broken. What are you going to do about it? The mayor of New York said, today, if you come to New York you can stay here for thirty days, we are not going to pay for your stay here free forever. The mayor of Chicago is coming to the White House today to beg for money to deal with migrants that have been sent to Chicago by people in Texas and other places who are full. And we are going to be talking about subpoenaing three private citizens and getting in the Supreme Court\u2019s business? You have lost your way.\u201dhttps://youtu.be/aQV2t4B3oxE?si=VXaJL38XTs1N7h-A&t=70\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cYou know you are not going to get sixty votes to enforce the subpoena. Mr. Crow offered you five years and I don\u2019t know why he offered you anything. I would have told you to go pound sand.\u201dhttps://youtu.be/aQV2t4B3oxE?si=cKIsL96_UKUtwdeY&t=127\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cThis is a fight you want, you are going to get it.\u201d https://youtu.be/aQV2t4B3oxE?si=fM6LYTSJvv21Hrzy&t=154\n\nClick here to watch Graham\u2019s full remarks\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:49:58Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=D5C31813-D16B-44B6-A4E2-B63C75D1E011"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0196180082857609, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}