I am an attorney, and a member of the Federalist Society. I have been known to leave my membership off of a resume when I thought my politics might have been an issue to the interviewer. I’m not changing who I am, and if they asked me, I’d be honest. But, I don’t see the point in highlighting it if I suspect it may raise an objection.
SnakeDoc
I have a friend from law school with an impeccable résumé who nonetheless did not get any offers when he applied for law school professorships right after his U.S. Circuit Court clerkship. He reapplied the following year, with the only differences in his résumé being that he had one year of private-practice experience and that this time he decided to leave out that he had been a member of the Federalist Society while at law school. He got plenty of offers, and he tells me that the only explanation for his newfound success was that the second time around the law schools weren’t biased against him because of his conservative ideology.