On Wednesday, when the eyes of the nation were still fixed on the Middle East, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing ...

Judges, some members of the Federalist Society and now a UF student justify bigotry based on their “originalist” view of the ...

The Supreme Court's decision curtailing nationwide judicial injunctions from federal courts comes after Trump has repeatedly ...

Even as Donald Trump has fumed at the conservative legal group, it remains the most influential player in Republican judicial nominations.

Membership was and is an imperfect proxy for legal conservatism. What matters is not whether a nominee is affiliated with the Federalist Society, but whether he or she is a legal conservative.

Trump recently appeared to declare war on the Federalist Society, the powerful conservative legal advocacy organization that played an essential role in his election both in 2016 and 2024.

But it was also a very different time. I think the Federalist Society at the law school at that time, when we would have meetings, maybe 10 or 12 people would show up. Things have changed.

For the past 40-plus years, the Federalist Society has shaped the conservative legal movement, which has been made ascendant by Trump’s nominees at every level of the judiciary. Most notably the ...

Speaking of ingratitude, the irony is that the Federalist Society deserves a lot of credit — or blame — for Trump being elected in the first place. In 2016, the death of Antonin Scalia left a ...

In a major about-face, Donald Trump is turning on the conservative powerhouse that built his judicial legacy, the Federalist Society. Yale Law professor Akhil Reed Amar warns that this break with ...

George Conway and Sarah Longwell discuss Donald Trump’s investigation into Joe Biden’s presidency, Trump’s new travel ban on 12 countries, and Trump’s retaliation against Harvard and foreign exchange ...

President Trump’s split with the Federalist Society may prove to be one of the most consequential legal developments of his second term, Vox senior correspondent Ian Millhiser writes.