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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