President Donald Trump’s days of naming conservatives to the federal bench may be ending, but members of the Federalist Society, the powerhouse that helped Republican administrations transform the judiciary, are down, not out, and already anticipating 2028.
The mood at their annual lawyers convention in Washington, DC, held the week after the Blue-wave election trounced Republicans, was strikingly sanguine. That’s partly because, since its founding in the early 1980s, the Federalist Society’s mission has been to wage battle against a perceived dominant liberal culture.
