Guided by Leonard Leo, the society built a pipeline for traditional conservative judges. But that might not be enough for ...

President Trump and his allies are waging war with the Federalist Society as he sees parts of his second-term agenda blocked by some of his own judicial appointees. Simmering tensions broke into full ...

In the early-morning hours of April 19, 2025, the Supreme Court issued a highly unusual order. Released at 12:56 a.m., it covered only half a page; it was unsigned; and it dealt a blow to the Trump ...

President Donald Trump said the Federalist Society gave him “bad advice” on judicial nominations. He’s still appointing their members to the federal bench anyway. On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary ...

During the 2016 presidential election campaign, candidate Donald Trump took the unprecedented move of releasing a list of his potential Supreme Court nominees. But Trump didn’t assemble this list ...

Last week, the Court of International Trade delivered a blow to Donald Trump’s global trade war. It found that the worldwide tariffs Trump unveiled on “Liberation Day” as well his earlier tariffs ...

When former President Donald Trump began the review process for nominating a Supreme Court justice in 2017, Leonard Leo — the former vice president and current co-chairman of the Federalist Society — ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Paul M. Collins Jr., UMass Amherst and Tim Komatsu, UMass Amherst (THE CONVERSATION) ...