Over the last thirty years, the Federalist Society for Law and
Public Policy Studies has grown from a small group of disaffected
conservative law students into an organization with extraordinary
influence over American law and politics. Although the organization
is unknown to the average citizen, this group of intellectuals has
managed to monopolize the selection of federal judges, take over
the Department of Justice, and control legal policy in the White
House.
Today the Society claims that 45,000 conservative lawyers and
law students are involved in its activities. Four Supreme Court
Justices--Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Samuel
Alito--are current or former members. Every single federal judge
appointed in the two Bush presidencies was either a Society member
or approved by members. During the Bush years, young Federalist
Society lawyers dominated the legal staffs of the Justice
Department and other important government agencies.
The Society has lawyer chapters in every major city in the
United States and student chapters in every accredited law school.
Its membership includes economic conservatives, social
conservatives, Christian conservatives, and libertarians, who
differ with each other on significant issues, but who cooperate in
advancing a broad conservative agenda.
How did this happen? How did this group of conservatives succeed
in moving their theories into the mainstream of legal thought?
What is the range of positions of those associated with the
Federalist Society in areas of legal and political controversy? The
authors survey these stances in separate chapters on
regulation of business and private property;
race and gender discrimination and affirmative action;
personal sexual autonomy, including abortion and gay rights;
and
American exceptionalism and international law.
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