The Senate confirmed Jennifer Mascott to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit by a vote of 50-47, marking Trump’s second appointee to this circuit in his second term. Mascott, a Catholic University law professor and former Trump White House lawyer, founded the Separation of Powers …
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Chicago businessman Barre Seid provided an unprecedented $1.6 billion donation to Leonard Leo’s Marble Freedom Trust through a strategic stock transfer of Tripp Lite to Eaton Corporation. This donation, the largest known to a political advocacy group in U.S. history, potentially avoided …
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In 1991, Leonard Leo joined the Federalist Society’s national office, beginning his systematic transformation of the organization’s approach to judicial selection. Leo developed a strategic ‘pipeline’ to identify, nurture, and advance conservative legal talent from law school …
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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 …
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