OUTSIDE VIEW: How the Conservative Federalist Society Will Affect the Supreme Court for Decades to Come

OUTSIDE VIEW: How the conservative Federalist Society will affect the Supreme Court for decades to come

Paul M. Collins Jr., Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science, UMass Amherst

How the Conservative Federalist Society Has and Will Affect the Supreme Court

Republished with permission from The Conversation, by Paul M. Collins Jr., UMass Amherst and Tim Komatsu, UMass Amherst During the 2016 presidential election campaign, candidate Donald Trump took the unprecedented move of releasing a list of his potential Supreme Court nominees. But Trump didn’t assemble this list himself. Instead, he outsourced the selection of his judicial appointments to leaders of the Federalist Society, an organization in …