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

The Supreme Court has just finished a term that should please conservatives, yet President Donald Trump is really not happy ...

Is it purely a hatred of ‘TRUMP?’ What other reason could it be? I was new to Washington, and it was suggested that I use The Federalist Society as a recommending source on Judges. I did so, openly ...

Trump nominee Emil Bove’s record of court defiance and loyalty raises serious concerns about his independence and a potential SCOTUS seat.

He singled out the Federalist Society, which during Trump's first term advised him on judicial nominations, including eventual Supreme Court picks Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

And yet, at a Federalist Society gathering last Wednesday, which focused on the executive branch of the federal government, both the speakers and attendees seemed far more ambivalent about their ...

As a reminder, Leo and the Federalist Society (which Leo functionally ran until 2023, when 91-year-old industrialist Barre Seid gave him $1.6 billion to do whatever he wants) have controlled ...

In 1990, before he even began officially working for the Federalist Society, as a 25-year-old clerk for a U.S. Court of Appeals judge in Washington, he met then-appellate judge Thomas, whom he ...

Last week, Donald Trump turned his fire on the Federalist Society, a powerful conservative advocacy group, and its co-founder Leonard Leo, a key adviser to Trump on judicial nominations during his ...

Drawing from the Federalist Society’s tremendous pool of legal talent, Trump nominated more than 230 federal judges in his first term. He placed 54 judges on the powerful courts of appeals (a ...

The Federalist Society is an influential conservative legal group whose ranks have included some of the nation’s most powerful judges, and its chapters on law school campuses have operated as a ...

The Federalist Society is surprisingly ambivalent about Trump. America’s most powerful legal organization confronts Trump’s incompetence. by Ian Millhiser. May 12, 2025, 10:15 AM UTC ...