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Yale Daily News (blog)
February 7, 2018
He was also the vice president of Yale's chapter of the Federalist Society. Founded in 1982, the Federalist Society “is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order,” according to its website, and many of Trump's judicial picks, including the Supreme Court JusticeÃÂ ...
Palm Beach Post
February 6, 2018
Rancor between candidates was on full display Saturday during a forum held by The Federalist Society, one of nation's most influential organizations ... The Federalist Society initially gave each of the four GOP candidates and Torrens a chance to introduce themselves and explain differences on issues.
Boston Herald
February 6, 2018
Court allows Pennsylvania to redraw GOP-favored district map ÷ Associated Press Monday, February 05, 2018. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito speaks at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention in Washington,à...
The Capitolist
February 4, 2018
Five candidates showed up at the Federalist Society's annual conference in Orlando on Saturday, but the event didn't catch fire until the candidates were finally allowed to start asking questions of each other. Former circuit judge Ashley Moody bristled at a 2nd Amendment rights question asked of her byÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
January 27, 2018
And Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society, has become a staple of Washington with an expansive network in the legal world. ... Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit who Trump added in November to his list of Supreme Court contenders, as well as the Federalist Society's top officials.
fox6now.com
January 22, 2018
MILWAUKEE -- Three candidates are vying for a seat on Wisconsin's Supreme Court after Justice Michael Gabelman chose not to seek a second term. Candidates Judge Michael Screnock, Judge Rebecca Dallet and Attorney Tim Burns battled it out during a forum hosted by the Federalist Society Monday,ÃÂ ...
Jacksonville Daily Record
January 21, 2018
Jacksonville Bar Association member luncheon with keynote speaker Mark Lanterman, principal of Computer Forensic Services, who will talk about digital evidence. The meeting begins at noon at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront.
Washington Examiner
January 19, 2018
He has pursued an aggressive deregulation agenda; the tax cut bill he signed (which included drastic reductions in corporate taxes) could have been pursued by just about any Republican president; his judicial picks led by Justice Neil Gorsuch have come straight from the Federalist Society crowd; he'sÃÂ ...
The Boston Globe
January 19, 2018
Meawhile, Trump has largely turned the judicial selection process over to the conservative Federalist Society, which has generated a record-setting rate of appointments, including selection of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, but also produced problematic nominees who have withdrawn on the adviceÃÂ ...
Above the Law
January 19, 2018
This White House may not have even the vaguest clue what it's policy is from minute to minute, but it's laser-focused on packing the federal courts with ideologues from the Federalist Society vaults. Sure they've suffered a few setbacks, with unqualified ghost hunters and wackos with Satan fetishes, butÃÂ ...
Roll Call
January 19, 2018
“Chairman Grassley does not get enough credit for his work on this,” McGahn told the Federalist Society. The previous day, Grassley had announced he would relax the committee's “blue slip” tradition — where a home-state senator needs to sign off on a blue piece of paper before the committee movesÃÂ ...
Courthouse News Service
January 19, 2018
A member of the conservative Federalist Society, Duncan also served as the attorney for a Virginia school board that sought to block a transgender high schooler from using the bathroom of his choice and defended the North Carolina General Assembly from a challenge to HB2, a controversial state law thatÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine
January 19, 2018
He also handed over virtually all of the vetting and wrangling of judicial nominees to the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society, groups that have openly sought to render the federal bench—in the words of Leonard Leo, the executive vice president of the Federalist Society—“unrecognizable.
HuffPost
January 17, 2018
The Federalist Society was founded in 1982 to advance a stringently conservative theory of law and politics. Its central ... To secure the allegiance of conservatives, he guaranteed that his judicial nominees would “all [be] picked by the Federalist Society” — beginning with a list of 21 potential Supreme CourtÃÂ ...
The Boston Globe
January 16, 2018
Because he is creating the politicized judiciary they crave – a dream team of right-wing enablers committed to advancing conservative ideology and corporate interests. If they resemble the roster of a men's club dominated by privileged white males with the sensibilities to match, that is no coincidence.
The Nevada Independent
January 15, 2018
Many of Trump's nominees have ties to the Federalist Society, a group of conservative and libertarian lawyers who consider themselves originalists — of the belief that the Constitution's meaning doesn't change over time. The group, which positions itself as a counterweight in a legal profession that isÃÂ ...
The Courier Life News
January 14, 2018
Ryan Owens, a UW-Madison Law School professor who specializes in judicial issues and is a member of the conservative-leaning Federalist Society, said the U.S. Supreme Court in 2002 decided it was permissible for judicial candidates to make their positions known. “The data are unclear on theÃÂ ...
InsideSources
January 13, 2018
The comments were made during a teleforum hosted by the Federalist Society. On the whole, Gray was skeptical that the cases would accomplish much at all in court because of flaws in the legal arguments used. “It is still a PR effort more than a legal one,” he said of de Blasio's announcement. The mostÃÂ ...
The Economist
January 12, 2018
Mr McGahn told a Federalist Society gathering in November that the administration wanted to nominate “strong and smart judges…committed originalists and textualists [who] possess the fortitude to enforce the rule of law”. Mr Trump's nominees, he crowed, “all have paper trails…there is nothing unknownÃÂ ...
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)
January 5, 2018
Federalist Society Documents 'American Spirit' of U.S. Distilling ÷ Richard Morrison • January 5, 2018. Twitter ÷ Facebook ÷ Google+ ÷ Print ÷ E-Mail. Our friends at the Federalist Society have a great new short film out about the history of alcohol regulation, from the last days of Prohibition to the new profusion of craft distilleriesà...
NPR
December 17, 2017
SUAREZ: The Federalist Society, which you're a contributor to, has reportedly suggested and vetted nominees for the administration. Would you stand by Matthew Petersen at this point? ADLER: I certainly have a lot of concerns. I should say my understanding is that the White House has been mostÃÂ ...
The Capitolist
December 31, 1999
Torrens' attendance as the lone Democrat should be interesting because even though the Federalist Society is non-partisan, it is one of the nation's most influential conservative and libertarian legal organizations. While the four Republicans on the stage will like voice opinions that are relatively similar,ÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
It now looks like a time when McConnell began to taste victory in the long game the GOP has been playing for years with regard to federal courts: grooming young, ultra-conservative lawyers; embedding them in influential networks, largely via the Federalist Society; and waiting for the stars to align to seedÃÂ ...
FRANCE 24
December 31, 1999
He has relied heavily on the input of Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organisation, and White House Counsel Donald McGahn, a Federalist Society member. Indeed, McGahn had a list of nominees ready to go weeks before Trump took office. “They hit theÃÂ ...
CNN
December 16, 2017
Grassley has gaveled in the hearings and infuriated Democrats by holding hearings with multiple nominees. And the conservative Federalist Society has suggested and vetted nominees, as well as rallied the judicial conservative base to change the status quo. "The Senate made history 2day by confirmingÃÂ ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian
December 6, 2017
Roughly 25 years after its inception, the Federalist Society is now a national organization that holds large amounts of sway in the process of appointing conservative lawyers to high-profile political positions. The Federalist Society advocates for individual freedoms and traditional values in all dimensions of the legal arena.
OregonLive.com
December 1, 2017
The chairman of the Federalist Society is proposing a radical transformation of the judicial system involving the massive expansion of permanent federal judgeships that will be filled by Trumpist appointees. The Federalist Society's purpose is to impose legal principles more in line with corporate and ...
Washington Examiner
December 1, 2017
A push by the co-founder of a leading right-leaning legal group helping President Trump fill federal courts has outraged like-minded judges, prompting one judge to say the co-founder should "stop pulling imaginary stuff from his butt." Federalist Society co-founder Steven Calabresi, a Northwestern law ...
The Detroit News
November 26, 2017
At the Federalist Society, Gorsuch recognized the improbable turn of events that led him from an appellate judgeship in his native Colorado to ...
Los Angeles Times
November 20, 2017
The Trump administration last week refreshed its list of potential nominees to the Supreme Court, just in time for remarks by White House counsel Don McGahn to a lawyer's convention of the Federalist Society. There is no vacancy on the court. The oldest justice, 84-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whoÃÂ ...
Arkansas Times (blog)
November 17, 2017
It's about the powerful conservative legal group, the Federalist Society, with a breathtaking court-packing idea. They would create dozens of new district and appellate level federal courtships — to be filled at lightning pace by the compliant Senate of course — to counteract any remaining tendencies on theÃÂ ...
ThinkProgress
November 17, 2017
In a memo to Congress, the founder and board chair of America's most influential conservative legal society proposed a massive court-packing plan that would enable President Donald Trump to fill the judiciary with hundreds of new judges. The memo, co-authored by law professor and Federalist SocietyÃÂ ...
Politico
November 17, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions opened a speech at a Federalist Society gathering Friday by asking the audience if there were “any Russians” ...
Washington Examiner
November 16, 2017
Last year in 2016, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention in Washington, D.C. This ...
The Hill
November 16, 2017
Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society, is a White ... to be interviewed for this story, as did other Federalist Society staff ...
Law.com
November 16, 2017
Justice Neil Gorsuch tested out his comedic skills Thursday night in a speech before the conservative-leaning Federalist Society. The newest ...
Bangor Daily News
November 13, 2017
... two of them were part of a small group who gathered on the campus of Cornell University for a Federalist Society meeting in the fall of 1988.
Dallas News
November 13, 2017
... of Paladin Strategies, a business consulting firm. At Harvard Law School, she was active in a chapter of the Federalist Society, a conservative ...
New York Times
November 11, 2017
Liberals have accused Mr. Trump of outsourcing his nominations process to the Federalist Society. But two administration officials argued that ...
Mother Jones
November 10, 2017
But they also want to remake the federal judiciary, and as long as Trump keeps sending them Federalist Society nominees they're not likely to ...
Metro Weekly
November 10, 2017
He is a longtime member of the Federalist Society, a right-wing legal organization whose members believe in an “originalist” approach to the ...
Mother Jones
November 9, 2017
“We're going to have great judges, conservative, all picked by the Federalist Society,” Trump promised during a June 2016 interview on ...
Courthouse News Service
November 9, 2017
A member of the conservative Federalist Society, Talley told senators in written responses to questions posed to him after his nomination ...
Hillsdale Collegian
November 9, 2017
Ken Davis is a former deputy attorney general for the Virginia commonwealth. Hillsdale's Federalist Society invited Davis to Hillsdale College ...
The Daily Gazette
November 2, 2017
Just as Lindsey Johnson, president of the school's Federalist Society, said the event was intended as a “platform to hear from opposing sides,” ...
HuffPost
October 29, 2017
Joan Larsen of Michigan, also on the Heritage Foundation/Federalist Society list, is up for a seat on the Sixth Circuit. Currently a justice on the ...
Courthouse News Service
October 27, 2017
A member of the conservative Federalist Society, Eid was on Trump's short list of potential nominees to the vacant seat on the Supreme Court.
U.S. News & World Report
October 27, 2017
Leo's roster of 21 judges and lawyers that he believes should fill any open Supreme Court seats all have strong ties to the Federalist Society, ...
The Federalist
October 12, 2017
This week, the president of Texas Southern University intervened to shut down a Federalist Society event featuring Republican state Rep.
Bloomberg BNA
October 12, 2017
A Federalist Society program canceled in the midst of protests at the event at a historically black university has led to a call for action by a Texas ...
