David McIntosh

Grover Norquist and 35 Conservative Groups Urge Trump to Let ACA Tax Credits Expire While Opposing Corporate Tax Credit Expirations

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On September 26, 2025, Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform led a coalition of 35 conservative organizations—including Club for Growth and Americans for Prosperity—in sending a letter to President Trump urging him to let enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits expire in December …

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Federalist Society Established: Conservative Judicial Pipeline Inception

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In April 1982, three Yale Law School alumni – Steven Calabresi, David McIntosh, and Lee Liberman Otis – founded the Federalist Society at a pivotal moment in conservative legal thought. Their inaugural conference, funded by the Institute for Educational Affairs and John M. Olin Foundation, featured …

Steven Calabresi David McIntosh Lee Liberman Otis Robert Bork Antonin Scalia +1 more judicial-capture conservative-legal-movement supreme-court institutional-infrastructure legal-ideology
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Federalist Society Founded to Capture Conservative Legal Pipeline

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Yale Law School students Steven Calabresi, David McIntosh, Lee Liberman Otis, Spencer Abraham, and Peter Keisler founded the Federalist Society in 1982 to challenge liberal ideology in elite law schools. With initial funding of $24,000 from the John M. Olin Foundation, the organization created a …

Steven Calabresi David McIntosh Lee Liberman Otis Spencer Abraham Peter Keisler +1 more federalist-society conservative-legal-movement judicial-pipeline originalism legal-education +1 more
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