12 Facts About Federalist Society

Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is an American conservative and libertarian legal organization that advocates for a textualist and originalist interpretation of the U S Constitution.

Federalist Society was founded in 1982 by a group of students from Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, and the University of Chicago Law School who wanted to challenge liberal or left-wing ideology within elite American law schools and universities.

Donors to the Federalist Society have included Google, Chevron, Charles G and David H Koch; the family foundation of Richard Mellon Scaife; and the Mercer family.

Federalist Society is a client of the public relations firm Creative Response Concepts.

Federalist Society has 200 student chapters at law schools across the United States as well as lawyers chapters in 90 U S cities.

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In that sense, the Federalist Society is a talent network and placement agency as well.

Many members of the Federalist Society favored overturning Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that permitted abortion, prior to its overturning in 2022.

Federalist Society members were extensively involved with the Parents Involved in Community Schools v Seattle School District No 1 ruling where the Supreme Court struck down voluntary desegregation plans in several jurisdictions.

The Federalist Society was influential in shifting legal views on gun rights, culminating in the Supreme Court ruling District of Columbia v Heller which struck down gun regulations in the District of Columbia that required guns to be kept "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock".

Federalist Society had a significant influence on the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling which weakened regulations on campaign finance by finding that the free speech clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for communications by nonprofit corporations, for-profit corporations, labor unions, and other associations.

Federalist Society was influential in the Trump administration, hand-selecting Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and recruiting a slate of conservative judges to fill vacancies throughout the federal judiciary.

In May 2018, the Federalist Society hosted a phone call entitled "examining the legality of the Mueller Investigation", where one of the featured speakers argued that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election was unconstitutional.