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WASHINGTON, May 28 - Without it, the Federalist Society might not exist, nor its network of 35,000 conservative lawyers. Economic analysis might hold less sway in American courts. The premier idea factories of the right, from the Hoover Institution to the Heritage Foundation, would have lost millions of dollars in core support. And some classics of the conservative canon would have lost their financier, including Allan Bloom's lament of academic decline and Charles Murray's attacks on welfare. Part Medici, part venture capitalist, the John M. Olin Foundation has spent three decades financing the intellectual rise of the right and exciting...

For those of you who missed Rush today, he's posted the full text of Janice Rogers Brown's BRILLIANT speech to the Federalist Society.

A panel of leading constitutional scholars, including Dean Kenneth Starr, will debate "The Constitution and The Boy Scouts: Equal Access to Government Land and the First Amendment,” on Wednesday, May 18 from noon to 2 p.m. Pacific Time. The public and the media are invited to attend the program or to watch and participate in the Internet. For those attending in person, lunch will be served free of charge. The program is sponsored by the Federalist Society on Law and Public Policy and will be held at the Wyndham Hotel at Emerald Plaza 400 West Broadway, San Diego, CA, in...

Supporters of President Bush's judicial nominees have hired the same media firm used by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth for their efforts to defend the next nominee for any upcoming Supreme Court vacancy.     The aggressive media style of Creative Response Concepts (CRC) will be met by a "war room" already set up by the liberal People For the American Way (PFAW) on the other side, indicating that the next Supreme Court fight is likely to be one of the nastiest in history.     "There is nothing more important -- if and when it happens -- than a Supreme Court...

WASHINGTON - Soon after President Bush took office, two events set in motion what has become an extraordinary battle between the White House and Senate Democrats over the appointment of federal judges. First, the new president and his aides turned to the Federalist Society, a conservative lawyers' group, to help select candidates. Of Mr. Bush's first batch of nominees, 8 of 11 were proposed by the society. There could have been no clearer signal that Mr. Bush intended to follow the pattern set by his father and President Ronald Reagan of shifting the courts rightward and reaping the political benefit...

Federalist Society Panel: Waging the War on Terror in the Supreme Court 4/14/2004 11:18:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Assignment Desk, Daybooks Contact: Katherine Mendis of the Federalist Society, 202-822-8138 or kmendis@fed-soc.org. News Advisory: The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide the much-publicized Hamdi, Padilla, and Guantanamo cases, which will have far-reaching implications as the United States wages a war on international terrorism. Several important issues have come to figure prominently in national debate, including the extent of executive power, habeas corpus jurisdictional issues, implications for the role of legal counsel, and questions about what rights are to be accorded...

<p>Peace, in setting presidential reputations, far outranks its brother prosperity. I didn't realize how completely war and peace define our presidents until I was asked to think about their economic leadership.</p> <p>Our OpinionJournal.com1 and the Federalist Society sponsored a new rating of the presidents, and in June an expanded print version will be published in collaboration with Simon & Schuster. I was asked to join William Bennett, Richard Brookhiser, Robert Dallek and others in contributing. Asked about leadership on economic policy, I couldn't find much.</p>

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently joined U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, anti-Pledge-of-Allegiance Judge Stephen Reinhardt and other like-minded liberals and feminists to launch a new organization called the American Constitution Society.Its mission is to challenge The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, which promotes the nomination of judges who believe in the U.S. Constitution and in the U.S. system of federalism.The left doesn't believe the Constitution should be the bench mark of court decisions or that we should abide by the requirement that "all legislative powers" belong to...

New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton Friday praised the efforts of a fledgling liberal lawyers' group to counter the influence of the decades-old free market Federalist Society. During a luncheon address to the "American Constitution Society for Law and Policy," Clinton seized another opportunity to blast the "vast right-wing conspiracy," saying she only regretted implying it was a secretive effort. "It has been clear for a number of years that there really is a vast right-wing conspiracy," said Clinton. "My only regret was using the word 'conspiracy,' because there is absolutely nothing secret about it. "It is a network with...

New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton Friday praised the efforts of a fledgling liberal lawyers' group to counter the influence of the decades-old free market Federalist Society. During a luncheon address to the "American Constitution Society for Law and Policy," Clinton seized another opportunity to blast the "vast right-wing conspiracy," saying she only regretted implying it was a secretive effort. "It has been clear for a number of years that there really is a vast right-wing conspiracy," said Clinton. "My only regret was using the word 'conspiracy,' because there is absolutely nothing secret about it. "It is a network with...

Left-wing lawyers have long been outraged that the Federalist Society dares to support the U.S. Constitution. Now they're organizing into an opposing organization. The lefties are creating something they call American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, which would more accurately be called Anti-American Anti-Constitution Socialists Against Law and Policy. Sen. Hillary Clinton and leftist Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are scheduled to speak to the group this weekend. There's even a Janet Reno Dance Party planned. The organization will copy the Federalist Society in recruiting young members at law schools. "The conservatives have been shrewder in organizing,...

<p>The Day of Judgment is at hand. We know this not because we've seen a vision but because the Prophet Ralph Neas told us so, in a mass e-mailing to journalists yesterday.</p> <p>"The Approaching Armageddon on Judicial Nominations" is the title of Mr. Neas's latest moral admonition, handed down from his command center at the People for the American Way, where he has spent the past two years directing the Senate Judiciary Committee's evisceration of many of President Bush's judicial nominees. But now the Senate has fallen into the hands of the beast and the end is nigh. The Horsemen of the coming Apocalypse are Mr. Bush's expected appointees to the Supreme Court.</p>

<p>From a speech by Solicitor General Theodore Olson to the Federalist Society on Nov. 16, 2001. Mr. Olson's wife, Barbara, was one of the airplane passengers murdered on Sept. 11, 2001.</p> <p>September 11, 2001 was unprecedented in our nation's history. Our country has been attacked before. Our soldiers and innocent citizens have been the victims of terrorism before. But never before in our history have so many civilian citizens, engaged in the routines of their daily lives, who neither individually nor collectively had done anything to provoke the savage attack that they were to experience that day, been brutally murdered for the simple reason that they were Americans, and because they stood, in their countless individual lives, for all the things that America symbolizes.</p>

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