Federalist Society 
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11/14/2022
The Conservative Movement Has Captured SCOTUS. Now What?
by Linda Greenhouse
As the institution with the power to advance conservative goals without popular support, it was inevitable that the right would focus on packing the judiciary, explains veteran court reporter Linda Greenhouse.
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SOURCE: Truthout
6/28/2022
Dark Money Fuels Anti-Choice Assault in State Houses
by Julia Peck, Evan Vorpahl & Alyssa Bowen
Dark money groups are ready to flood state legislative, judicial and attorney general races with cash and supply their allies with model legislation to take immediate advantage of the opening created by the Dobbs decision. The state-level war over abortion rights is on.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/16/2022
The Conservatives on the Court Don't Seem too Concerned about SCOTUS's Legitimacy
by Mary Ziegler
The belief that Supreme Court justices will moderate their decisions to avoid the image of an unelected group of partisan ideologues usurping the power of the elected branches of the government seems increasingly rooted in outdated norms and institutional arrangements that no longer apply.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
7/8/2021
How Democrats Lost the Courts
"Some Democrats are starting to suspect that the story is simpler: They’ve been chumps. They have clung to norms Republicans long ago abandoned. They have championed moderates in order to appeal to their enemies, only to watch those moderates twist in the wind."
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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.
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