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The Federalist Society
How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals
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Today the Society claims that 45,000 conservative lawyers and law students are involved in its activities. Four Supreme Court Justices—Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito—are current or former members. Every single federal judge appointed in the two Bush presidencies was either a Society member or approved by members. During the Bush years, young Federalist Society lawyers dominated the legal staffs of the Justice Department and other important government agencies.
The Society has lawyer chapters in every major city in the United States and student chapters in every accredited law school. Its membership includes economic conservatives, social conservatives, Christian conservatives, and libertarians, who differ with each other on significant issues, but who cooperate in advancing a broad conservative agenda.
How did this happen? How did this group of conservatives succeed in moving their theories into the mainstream of legal thought?
What is the range of positions of those associated with the Federalist Society in areas of legal and political controversy? The authors survey these stances in separate chapters on
• regulation of business and private property
• race and gender discrimination and affirmative action
• personal sexual autonomy, including abortion and gay rights
• American exceptionalism and international law
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Release date
April 15, 2013 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780826503398
- File size: 927 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780826503398
- File size: 927 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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April 15, 2013
This is the story of how a group founded by conservative law students at the University of Chicago grew into a powerful national movement that has decisively shifted American courts and politics to the right. Avery (law, Suffolk Univ., Boston) and McLaughlin, a partner in the Boston law firm Nixon Peabody, explore the history of the Federalist Society and its role in the modern conservative movement while explaining the guiding principles and goals of the group. The beginning of the book explores how the Federalist Society helped to shape the Reagan era and came to even greater prominence in the George W. Bush White House as its members took seats on the federal courts and positions in the Justice Department. Each of the next chapters discusses the society's approach to issues such as property rights, affirmative action, gender equality, gay rights, and the U.S. role in international affairs. VERDICT The authors write in plain language and explain the legal terms they use for a lay audience. However, the subject is complex and requires some explanation. Students and serious readers interested in the conservative movement will want to read; casual readers will want something else.--Becky Kennedy, Atlanta-Fulton P.L.
Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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