Federalist Society

Making sense of the Supreme Court’s historic year

Amanda Hollis-Brusky - December 26, 2022

The TMC 2022 roundups: U.S. Supreme Court

The new Supreme Court doctrine against religious discrimination

Andrew Lewis - July 6, 2022

Conservative justices favor religious liberty over the separation of church and state.

Can Congress resurrect Roe if it’s overturned? Well, it could try.

Amanda Hollis-Brusky - May 4, 2022

The Supreme Court might well strike that down, too.

Biden said he won’t make an ‘ideological’ Supreme Court pick. Republicans do exactly that.

Amanda Hollis-Brusky - February 14, 2022

Liberals want to counter the influence of the Federalist Society. The Democratic Party may be their biggest obstacle.

Gorsuch is scheduled to speak to the right-wing Federalist Society. Americans find such speeches inappropriate.

Nathan T. Carrington and Logan Strother - February 4, 2022

Americans don’t approve of justices appearing with politicians, our research finds.

The Supreme Court might overturn Roe. It took decades of scorched-earth conservative politics to get here.

Joshua C. Wilson and Amanda Hollis-Brusky - December 2, 2021

Upholding Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban could severely damage American belief in the court’s legitimacy.

Conservative Republican women have led the fight to restrict abortion

Rebecca J. Kreitzer, Emily U. Schilling, and Abigail A. Matthews - September 9, 2021

Democrats like to say Republicans are waging a ‘war on women.’ That erases the conservative Republican women who have been working to ban abortion.

Will Breyer retire while Democrats hold the White House and Senate? Here’s what political science tells us.

Christine Nemacheck - April 21, 2021

Most federal judges retire for personal, rather than politically strategic, reasons. Supreme Court justices may be different.

How the Christian right helped get Amy Coney Barrett nominated to the Supreme Court

Henry Farrell - October 15, 2020

A Q&A with the authors of the new book “Separate But Faithful: The Christian Right’s Radical Struggle to Transform Law and Legal Culture.”

The Supreme Court just took aim at Congress’s ability to protect federal agencies from partisan politics

Patrick Schmidt and Margaret Moran - July 1, 2020

The conservative legal community has been playing a long game aimed at overturning New Deal decisions.

What Bill Barr doesn’t understand about the office of attorney general

Cornell W. Clayton - December 17, 2019

The U.S. attorney general’s office started in the judicial branch, not the executive — and has never been entirely under presidential control

Barr blames lawyers for undermining the president’s power. Actually, they helped build it.

Amanda Hollis-Brusky - November 18, 2019

Federalist Society lawyers are the architects in chief of the “imperial presidency.”

About The Monkey Cage

John Sides - June 10, 2019

What is The Monkey Cage?“Democracy is the art of running

These two arguments make Americans less opposed to court packing

Michael J. Nelson and Amanda Driscoll - March 26, 2019

Putting more justices on the Supreme Court might not backfire as spectacularly as many expect.

John Bolton attacked the ICC. Cooperating with it might be a better way to protect U.S. interests.

Terrence Chapman and Stephen Chaudoin - September 14, 2018

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Exactly how conservative are the judges on Trump’s short list for the Supreme Court? Take a look at this one chart.

Kevin Cope - July 7, 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/segments/whos-on-president-trumps-list-to-replace-justice-kennedy/2018/06/29/2fdeaa42-7bb8-11e8-ac4e-421ef7165923_video.html?utm_term=.2ffa5915075c How will President Trump’s replacement for Justice Anthony M.

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