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31 Jul 2024, 5:06 am
It is the culmination of a determined decades-long campaign that began during the Reagan administration and has been nurtured by institutions like the Federalist Society. [read post]
2 May 2019, 4:55 pm
How about this frightening statistic: the Senate has just confirmed Trump's 100th nominee to the federal bench, virtually all of whom are extremely young and extremely conservative, having been incubated in Federalist Society dogma. [read post]
30 May 2020, 5:00 am
On this view, its flexibility is not a bug but a feature, for it allows young conservatives to be members of the Federalist Society in good standing and yet do so without committing themselves to the view that, say, the Constitution would allow states to ban women from practicing law. [read post]
20 Nov 2017, 12:45 pm
In a speech before the conservative Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention, Sessions described an internal Justice Department memo he signed prohibiting his department from issuing “improper” guidance documents. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 5:00 pm
I don’t join groups; you won’t find me at a Federalist Society meeting. [read post]
12 Aug 2022, 8:54 am
Had Trump been expeditiously impeached, convicted, and removed from office after he fired James Comey in 2017, Mike Pence would have had almost a full term in the Oval Office, during which time he would have nominated the same judges and justices that the Federalist Society told Trump to appoint. [read post]
25 Nov 2019, 11:00 am
Rather, it is better understood as a case in which Marshall kept alive the older Federalist theory of implied powers, rooted primarily in the Sweeping Clause’s reference to “other powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States,” while nonetheless shrouding that theory in a certain amount of strategic ambiguity and otherwise signaling that the Court would not permit implied powers to be used to threaten slavery. [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 11:44 am
” According to Jeffrey Toobin as he tells it in The Nine, in the early 1980s, when conservatives were thinking of a name for what later became The Federalist Society, Steven Calabresi and others considered the idea of calling the group “The Alexander Bickel Society. [read post]
15 May 2007, 12:19 pm
If the Justice Department decides to intervene, or not to intervene, in a private lawsuit challenging a state's consideration of race-conscious criteria in higher education, either way the government takes sides in a debate about the meaning of equality, the continuing significance of race in our society, the way public resources should be allocated, the value and importance of diversity, and so on. [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 11:44 am
” According to Jeffrey Toobin as he tells it in The Nine, in the early 1980s, when conservatives were thinking of a name for what later became The Federalist Society, Steven Calabresi and others considered the idea of calling the group “The Alexander Bickel Society. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 8:08 am
Also speaking at the Georgetown panel, co-sponsored by its Supreme Court Institute and the Federalist Society, were several lawyers who had filed briefs in the case. [read post]
11 Nov 2019, 10:44 am
As a co-founder of the Federalist Society and the current chair of its board of directors, Calabresi ordinarily speaks with great authority on behalf of the conservative legal establishment, which makes this misstep all the more troubling. [read post]
26 Jul 2008, 5:15 pm
In the words of one member of the Federalist Society, "Contract Attorneys are Stupid. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 4:04 pm
” I will just pause here to randomly mention that Calabresi, who is co-founder of the Federalist Society, first opposed the impeachment of Donald Trump and then supported it, and more recently took the position that the insurrection disqualified Trump from holding office, before deciding a month later that no it didn’t. [read post]
22 Sep 2009, 3:59 pm
Good thing I did the reading… 12:00pm Go to a lunch discussion panel hosted by the Federalist Society. [read post]
8 Jun 2007, 8:13 am
Otis, described by Froomkin as a member of the Federalist Society and by the Post as a former federal prosecutor [who] was a member of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee on the Sentencing Guidelines under administrations of both parties. [read post]
13 Mar 2009, 9:39 am
She is a member of the conservative Federalist Society legal group and cultivated close connections to former senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), an advocate for antiabortion and Christian groups. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 9:46 pm
All three essays appeared in the conservative/libertarian Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy as part of a 1991 symposium on “The Future of Civil Rights Law” and were initially presented at the Federalist Society’s 1990 National Student Symposium held at Stanford. [read post]
18 Nov 2017, 4:45 am
In his speech to the Federalist Society, a group so despised by progressives for its brutal politics and slavish adherence to reason, the last and, according to progressives least, legitimate Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch, cracked a joke. [read post]
6 Dec 2014, 9:16 am
But the Post's hands are not clean.A couple of weeks ago I was in Reagan Airport on my way back from the Federalist Society Convention, and I was astonished to see a partisan advocacy piece printed as the headline news story in the Sunday Washington Post. [read post]
