The Federalist Society, which sits atop the many organizations that might be called the right-wing legal movement, has come to dominate both our courts and our body of legal thought. Six of nine ...
Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and ...
President Donald Trump blamed the Federalist Society for the federal court ruling striking down his tariff agenda, attributing the decision to “bad advice” the group gave him on judicial nominations.
Leonard Leo speaks at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., on April 23, 2019. (Michael Robinson Chavez / The Washington Post via Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that ...
Or that the CIT panel’s sole Trump appointee, far from being a Federalist Society creature, is a lifelong Democrat—that court’s governing statute requires partisan balance—who had previously been a ...