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

But while the Federalist Society was founded during Ronald Reagan’s first term, it did not yet have a cadre of loyal, experienced potential judicial nominees until George W. Bush’s presidency.

President Trump's track record of Federalist Society judges is nothing short of a resounding victory for conservatives.

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

The Federalist Society, once instrumental in securing conservative judicial appointments under Trump, now faces his criticism for prioritizing legal principles over political loyalty, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Texas federal judge whose court has emerged as a magnet for conservative litigants joked that a recent Supreme Court ruling ...

Ad Policy Leonard Leo, former head of the Federalist Society, and Donald Trump. (Nordin Catic / Getty Images for The Cambridge Union; Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) One of the keys to Donald Trump ...

The Federalist Society helped President Donald Trump shift the judicial branch much younger and more conservative. Now, the president is expressing his discontent with some of those judges.

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