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MORE LINKSNY Times Republicans used tax-exempt Federalist Society to take over federal judiciaryIn Alito, G.O.P. Reaps Harvest Planted in '82 ...In 1982, the year after Mr. Alito first joined the Reagan administration, that movement was little more than the handful of legal scholars who gathered at Yale for the first meeting of the Federalist Society, a newly formed conservative legal group...With grants from major conservative donors like the John M. Olin Foundation, the Federalist Society functioned as a kind of shadow conservative [Republican Party] bar association, planting chapters in law schools around the country that served as a pipeline to prestigious judicial clerkships...
Brian Ross Supreme Ethics Problem?At the historic swearing-in of John Roberts...last September, every member of the Supreme Court, except Antonin Scalia, was in attendance. ABC News has learned that Scalia instead was on the tennis court at one of the country's top resorts, the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Bachelor Gulch, Colo., during a trip to a legal seminar sponsored by the Federalist Society.
Washington Post A LOOK AT . . . JUDICIAL AGENDAS & THE FEDERALISTSDinh Plays Dumb Several Bush administration judicial nominees belong to the 25,000-member Federalist Society. During law professor Viet Dinh's May confirmation hearing to be an assistant attorney general, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) questioned him about the organization's legal philosophy. Excerpts: DURBIN: So it is your belief that the Federalist Society does not have a . . . stated philosophy when it comes to, for example, the future course of the Supreme Court? DINH: No, I do not think it does have a stated philosophy... DURBIN: Where would you put the Federalist Society on the political spectrum? DINH: You know, I simply do not know... DURBIN: Well, let me say that what I've read -- and I'm not an expert nor am I a member of the Federalist Society -- they do have a very conservative philosophy. I don't think they are a debating society. I think they have an agenda.
Rob Levine How The Conservative Philanthropies, C. Boyden Gray, and the Law and Economics Movement Nearly Sank the Federal Regulatory State"E.P.A.'s Authority on Air Rules Wins Supreme Court's Backing" announced the headline in the New York Times
Jerry Landay The Conservative Cabal That's Transforming American LawWith the election of George W. Bush, members of the Federalist Society, a national fraternity of conservative lawyers, are queuing up for jobs in the federal government they purport to denigrate -- especially sensitive posts in the White House and the Justice Department. Federalists gained a foothold there in the years of Reagan and Bush's father. Federalist lawyers stagemanaged the Clinton impeachment. In the Senate, they've tilted the Federal bench to the right. And, Supreme Court Justice Scalia is a founder of the society. This article is required reading or re-reading for clues to what will likely occur below the surface of the new Administration and the radar screen of the mainstream news media.
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RECIPIENT PROFILEFederalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, TheWashington, DC 20036 [ From NCRP, The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations] The heavily-funded Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a growing network of law students, alumni and attorneys devoted to the spread of conservative legal principles. The Society, founded by two Yale law school students in the early 1980s, received $1.6 million in grants (from 1992-1994) to support its efforts to transform the legal profession, which it sees as "currently dominated by a form of liberal orthodoxy [advocating] a centralized and uniform society." Toward that end, the Society coordinates the work of both a Student Division and Lawyers Division. According to the Federalist Society's 1995 annual report, the Student Division has over 4,900 law student members in more than 140 law schools across the country, up from 2,137 members in 1989. The Society also reported that its Lawyers Division expanded at a "record-setting pace" in 1995. It now has over 15,000 attorneys and legal professionals and more than 50 active chapters. These chapters held 167 events in 1995 and were active in assembling networks of lawyers and community activists to influence local, state and national policy makers. Chapter events included a four-part lecture series on shaping a civil rights agenda for the 21st century; invited speakers included Michael Horowitz of the Hudson Institute and Michael Greve of the Center for Individual Rights. The Federalist Society also activated a Pro Bono Resource Network of conservative attorneys who make themselves available to conservative nonprofit law firms. It publishes a quarterly, The Federalist, with a circulation of 57,000, and other legal monographs and reports. The Society also initiated, in 1992, a Continuing Legal Education program to "focus on vital areas where the practice of law and public policy intersect." The first workshop focused on "Takings and the Environment: The Constitutional Implications of Environmental Regulation." Its ninth Annual Lawyers Convention attracted more than 500 attorneys to discuss "Group Rights, Victim Status, and the Law," with such speakers as American Enterprise Fellow Dinesh D'Souza, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, neo-conservative Glenn Loury, former Attorney General (and current fellow at the Heritage Foundation) Edwin Meese, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Charlie Savage Federalist Society membership secret handshake for admission to Bush Admin Civil Rights Division...Since 2003 the three sections have hired 11 lawyers who said they were members of the conservative Federalist Society. Seven hires in the three sections are listed as members of the Republican National Lawyers Association, including two who volunteered for Bush-Cheney
Nick Coleman Torture lawyers to meet at Federalist Society event at University of St ThomasShould we shun or debate torture memo lawyers?In a move seen as a brazen provocation by local human rights activists, [John] Yoo has been invited by the [University of St Thomas] law school's Federalist Society to speak here [in St Paul] Nov. 16. The faculty mentor for the society is [Robert] Delahunty. He and Yoo have been making a vigorous effort to rebut the claims they gave legal cover to the use of torture.
David Broder Executive VP for Federalist Society "on leave" to lobby for SC Miers confirmationIt's too soon to judge this nomination. But my guess is that in the end it is the liberals who will have the most misgivings about Miers.
DemocracyNow.org The Federalist (Society) Papers: John Roberts and the Right’s Move to Take Control of the JudiciaryALFRED ROSS: Well, Roberts, whether he’s paid his dues or not, was prominently listed in the 1997/1998 leadership directory published by the Federalist Society itself. So it is very difficult to believe that he didn't have any membership. He was on the Steering Committee. The important question is not whether he paid dues as a member or not. The question really at stake here is where does Roberts and his Federalist Society cronies plan to steer our ship of state. If one looks at the history of the Federalist Society, which was established at the inspiration of Robert Bork in the early 1980s, their entire trajectory has been to move our judicial system in an extremely radically right wing direction.
Charles Lane John G. Roberts, White House lied: Roberts IS member of Federalist SocietySupreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. has repeatedly said that he has no memory of belonging to the Federalist Society, but his name appears in the influential, conservative legal organization's 1997-1998 leadership directory.
Jeffrey Dubner GET YOUR ROBES OUT OF OUR PRISONS!I just watched John Ashcroft's address to the Federalist Society. It's a gripping speech, and quite frightening. He devotes the greatest portion of it to challenging the Supreme Court's decisions in Rasul v. Bush, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, and the other "enemy combatant" cases.
People for the American Way Right Wing Organizations: Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy StudiesThe FS Lawyers Division has 25,000 legal professionals: Student Division has more than 5,000 law students at 145 law schools, 60 metropolitan lawyers chapters, 15 nationwide practice groups, and a new Faculty Division with unpublished membership numbers.
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OTHER LINKSNat Parry Chertoff's 'Chilling Vision'Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff describes his "chilling vision" of a future in which the actions of the U.S. government are constrained by international law. To avert this danger, Chertoff urges right-wing legal activists at the Federalist Society to go on the offensive against the European Union and other governments trying to pressure the United States into operating within the Geneva Conventions and other human rights standards.
Neil A. Lewis A Somber Annual Meeting for Conservative LawyersThe Federalist Society gathered last week for its convention, where two Supreme Court justices and Vice President Dick Cheney gave speeches. ...Senator Charles E. Schumer, a New York Democrat who has been outspoken in opposing Mr. Bush’s nominees, said Friday that the election results “dramatically changed everything.”
David Montgomery No Secrets Here: Federalist Society Plots In the OpenConservative Legal Group Focuses on Judiciary to Come Election? What election?
David Morgan Chertoff tells Federalists International Law a threat to U.S.A top Bush administration official on Friday said the European Union, the United Nations and other international entities increasingly are using international law to challenge U.S. powers to reject treaties and protect itself from attack.
Frankie Lake Dirty TrickstersHow the Federalist Society and Young College Republicans Operate There is a good reason why the White House is trying so hard to dissociate John Roberts from his Federalist Society affiliation. The Federalist Society has its roots in the College Republicans and derives its membership from them. While I can't discuss the earlier history of the College Republicans with any authority, I do know this: the members now are enamored of dirty tricks. These people specialize in distraction, deception, and intimidation in order to advance their extremist agenda on the unwary.
Chicago Tribune Deputy attorney general nominee's record likely to draw scrutinyWould oversee Plame investigation Timothy Flanigan, President Bush's nominee to be deputy attorney general...was paid more than $800,000 [between 1996 and 1999] as a consultant to the Federalist Society, an association of conservative lawyers with significant ties to the current Bush administration, to write an as yet unfinished biography of Burger.
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