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22 May 2023, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
" That assertion echoes Justice Alito's November 2020 speech at the Federalist Society national convention in which he called COVID-related government actions "previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty," adding: "We have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as those experienced for most of 2020. [read post]
18 May 2023, 7:30 am by Ilya Somin
While overlooking the Report of 1800, Brnovich and Hyman both cite Madison's statement about  the invasion provision of the Guarantee Clause in Federalist 43: A protection against invasion is due from every society to the parts composing it. [read post]
18 May 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Sanford Levinson This post was prepared for a roundtable on Constitutional Crises, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022. [read post]
17 May 2023, 5:00 am by Mike LaChance
"The group regularly protests events, including a 2021 Federalist Society event at Yale Law School" The post Law Students for Climate Accountability Wants Law Schools to Ban ‘Fossil Fuel Lawyers’ first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion. [read post]
12 May 2023, 6:00 am by Sandy Levinson
  Trump, though, offers nothing of interest to the constitutional theorist save as a baleful reminder of the failure, contrary to the assurances set out in Federalist 68, that the Electoral College would serve as a guardrail against the election of a terrible demagogue to our highest office. [read post]
11 May 2023, 8:43 pm by Jonathan Zasloff
Federalist Society founder Steven Calabresi called Clinton a “nondelegation case masquerading as a bicameralism and presentment case. [read post]
10 May 2023, 12:13 pm by Joe Patrice
The post Look Out Federalist Society… Someone Else Is Trying To Gift More Free Trips To Federal Judges appeared first on Above the Law. [read post]
Last week, the Washington Post reported Thomas’s wife accepted money for consulting work she completed for the president of the Federalist Society. [read post]
8 May 2023, 2:29 pm by Ilya Somin
One of the the largest causes of this problem is the binary choice offered by the Federalist Society and the American Constitution Society. [read post]
US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Ginni accepted tens of thousands of dollars from Leonard Leo, the president of a conservative legal organization known as the Federalist Society, for consulting work over a decade ago, according to a new report from the Washington Post. [read post]
5 May 2023, 1:48 pm by Ilya Somin
Most notably, Stevens cut the references to "the best tradition of our federalist system" and allowing "different communities" to use "political processes" to "strike the balance of costs and benefits in different ways. [read post]
5 May 2023, 6:18 am
Leo, the executive vice president of the Federalist Society, asks the one that Robert Bork gave his most damaging answer to: "why do you want to be on the Supreme Court? [read post]
4 May 2023, 4:00 am by Eric Segall
One of the the largest causes of this problem is the binary choice offered by the Federalist Society and the American Constitution Society. [read post]
That same year, the right-wing Federalist Society was established.Leonard Leo: Conservative Catholic Justice-MakerThe Federalist Society became a major architect of conservative politics, outlasting the Moral Majority, which folded during the late 1980s. [read post]
2 May 2023, 7:32 am by Nonprofit Blogger
There is a new story up on Leonard Leo in Politico today by Heidi Przybyla, who has had some significant scoops on Leo and the Federalist Society. [read post]
2 May 2023, 5:57 am by Above the Law
* Leonard Leo used his Federalist Society contacts to secure $1.6 billion donation, which Politico suggests might "raise questions about its nonpartisan, non-political status. [read post]
2 May 2023, 5:30 am by Howard Bashman
“Leonard Leo used Federalist Society contact to obtain $1.6 billion donation; The society’s close ties to Leo’s network raise questions about its nonpartisan, non-political status”: Heidi Przybyla of Politico has this report. [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
One of the mangled uses of the concept of coercion in the dean’s letter was an admonishment to non-conservative students to be mindful that “student members of the Federalist Society and other conservatives have the same right to express their views free of coercion” as everyone else.This comment is offered as a reason to reject the idea that the Stanford administration could withhold approval of some outside speakers who are not engaged in good-faith speech. [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 7:12 am by Ryan Mulvey
Earlier this week, as part of its annual Executive Branch Review Conference, the Federalist Society hosted a panel entitled “$64,000 Questions — Obtaining Information from the Executive Branch. [read post]
26 Apr 2023, 9:45 pm by Josh Blackman
The statement also seems to greenlight speaking in front of the Federalist Society: Except in unusual circumstances, no such appearance will be created when a Justice speaks before a group associated with an educational institution, a bar group, or a nonprofit group that does not regularly engage in advocacy or lobbying about issues that may be implicated in cases that come before the Court. [read post]