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. In a sign of the continued alignment ...
(CNN) — Most of the lawyers Donald Trump has recently selected for lifetime appointments to the federal bench resemble those of his first presidency, despite his threat to abandon the Federalist ...
The president called the prominent judicial activist Leonard Leo a “real ‘sleazebag’” and said the Federalist Society had led him astray in his first term.
As Collins points out, these verbal gymnastics to avoid saying the case was correctly decided mirror those of Trump’s first term Supreme Court nominees who said Roe v. Wade was precedent but would not ...
WASHINGTON — After a slow start, President Donald Trump has been ramping up the pace of judicial nominations — but it remains to be seen if his recent public breakup with the increasingly far-right ...
If critics want more judges like Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, Federalist Society stalwarts will take that deal. And to the extent the second Trump administration wants to eliminate waste and ...
Phil Brest, a veteran of the judicial confirmation wars, will head the American Constitution Society at a time of legal ...