Federalist Society

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• SOURCE: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
  10/23/2020
  

  $80 Million Dark Money Group Tied to Trump Supreme Court Advisor Leonard Leo

  A picture is emerging, but it will take years to sort out. One thing is clear, though: Leo and his allies have amassed a massive war chest of anonymous donations for their fight to remake the federal judiciary.  

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/29/2020
  

  The Elite Sisterhood of Amy Coney Barrett

  Although abortion rights are receiving much of the focus from Amy Coney Barrett's critics, writer Melissa Gira Grant argues that her participation in a decades-long conservative effort to undermine the social safety net will have broad consequences on every dimension of the lives of women who lack Barrett's privilege. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/30/2020
  

  Federalist Society Co-Founder Writes Trump Efforts to Postpone Election Grounds for Removal

  by Steven G. Calabresi

  One of the founders of the Federalist Society argues that Trump's call to postpone the 2020 election is grounds for removal from office if not rescinded. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  4/7/2020
  

  How the Republican Party Took Over the Supreme Court

  by John Fabian Witt

  We are now at least one decade into a nearly unprecedented experiment in partisan judging at the highest court in the land. Our legal and political systems have barely begun to process what that means.
 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  3/30/2020
  

  All the President's Crackpots

  by Jeet Heer

  Richard A. Epstein’s crank theories about the coronavirus are influential thanks to a powerful network of right-wing legal activists.