The Federalist Society Just Won Its 40-Year War on Affirmative Action
The opinions that killed affirmative action were written by six justices who all have ties to the Federalist Society
https://truthout.org/articles/the-federalist-society-just-won-its-40-year-war-on-affirmative-action/
All of these groups promoting conspiracy theories about the Federalist Society, as opposed to simply going through the reasoning in the opinions themselves, are really misleading the public, coming across as if they've never actually listened to any FedSoc content.
In reality, the Federalist Society is one of the most evenhanded outfits I know of, presenting both sides of debates, *including pro-affirmative action speakers*.
Seriously, go pull up their content and give their debates a listen. They are nothing like the evil right-wing monster so many are trying to frame them as.
It's just so funny to hear people talking about the right-wing conspiracy from the Federalist Society when I've spent years listening to their left-wing content.
The organization gives voice to so many speakers that are adamantly critical of the right wing. That's in fact why I listen to them, because they call out the right-wing for being really off the rails.
So it comes across as gaslighting to someone like me.
Or more importantly, it comes across as taking advantage of people's lack of familiarity to sell a sensationalized narrative while avoiding what's really going on in the world.
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It is interesting of you to say so. To be fair, I have only ever read less than a handful of their content directly.
However, as a political commentator, I have been coming across them every other week. Always with a right-wing content. They have succeeded in hijacking 3 of the four federal institutions of government: the presidency (#TFG,) the #SupremeCourt, and most recently, the House of Representatives.
Let me therefore give you two more examples:
1) The...
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...renowned historian #HeatherCoxRichardson, wrote about the #FederalistSociety:
"Today’s #SupremeCourt, packed as it has been 👉by right-wing money behind the Federalist Society and that society’s leader, Leonard Leo,👈 is taking upon itself power over the federal government and the state governments to recreate the world that existed before the #NewDeal."
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-30-2023
They are not even conservatives in the true sense of the meaning, they are...
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...#reactionaries.
2) They put the least left-wing presidential candidate of the last decades, #TFG, into the #WhiteHouse, including even the disastrous #RonaldReagan:
#According to #PoliticoMagazine, "#Trump is #president for a long list of reasons, of course, but near the 👉top of that list is the imprimatur the #FederalistSociety granted him. He almost certainly couldn't have gotten what he wanted without the Federalists. 👈And...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society#Donald_Trump_administration
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...they almost certainly couldn't have gotten what they wanted without him."
(Kruse, Michael (September 2018). "The Weekend at Yale That Changed American Politics". Politico. Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2019.)
Irony of fate: #Politico is now owned by the notorious right-wing owner of Germany's biggest newspaper (aka tabloid) #BILD. (1)
So, in conclusion, while I do not doubt that you fid see this left-wing content...
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...for which they provided a platform, that was part of their right-wing communications strategy: #bothsidesism.
They introduced obscure right-wing talking points like the (now debunked even by the #MAGA #SCOTUS) #IndependentStateLegislatureTheory (#ISLT) into the political discourse by (probably) having reputable progressive scholars to appear neutral.
Other than that, they probably were false-flag operations. This is quite likely,...
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...as notorious General #MichaelFlyn, a known #PyOps specialist, is also in league with them:
Please note: "As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker."
And then look at the "neutral" moderator:
"Clark Neily, Vice President for Criminal Justice, 👉#CatoInstitute👈, one of the most notorious right-wing...
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...think tanks in the #US, funded by #KochIndustries.
As a follow-up, the #HarvardGazette backs up #Richardson's and my point of view on #Scotus:
A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.
This is also true for institutions.
"The #FederalistSociety was founded in 1982 by a group of students from #Yale Law School, #Harvard Law School, and The University of #Chicago Law School with the 👉aim of...
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...challenging liberal or left-wing ideology within elite American law schools and universities. 👈"
#WaPo
i/: So, my advise would be to make sure when you listen to the "left-wing" speaker they invite (which might not be top-notch, due to the tainted image of the Society, btw), you then switch on your "content filter" to "high" when the right-wing propaganda representative takes the stage. /i
To be fair, they have been doing a marvelous job of indoctrinating...
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...people in the last 4 decades:
"...it has chapters at more than 200 law schools and features student, lawyer, and faculty divisions; the lawyers division comprises more than 70,000 practicing attorneys in ninety cities."
"It is one of the most influential legal organizations in the United States."
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...sell a sensationalized narrative while avoiding what’s really going on in the world."
Yes, but not only "sensationalized," but "retrofitted" to their reactionary philosophy, trying to turn back time.
In my opinion, it is one of the most dangerous organizations of the US, en par in this respect with the NRA.
@HistoPol @volkris @persagen
100% agree
Even Fox "News" has lefty guests - and not to have a balanced, truth-seeking discussion.
Look which Federalists get the clerkships and judge's robes, it's the extreme right ones. Listen to the crickets from the FS as rights are destroyed. The Federalist Society's actions speak VERY loudly and clearly.
If you actually sit down and listen to Federalist Society output, they don't have random lefty guests, they have full-throated criticisms of right-wing positions from serious people making serious points.
Again, this really comes across as gaslighting.
Obviously my years of hearing the Federalist Society giving megaphones to those who disassemble stupid right-wing positions, yeah I was mistaken the whole time.
It's more important to promote the conspiracy theory than to appreciate the organization that spends so much time countering right-wing nonsense.
You do realize that the Federalist Society doesn't appoint judges, right?
I mean you are really sort of begging the question here, buying into this conspiracy to ask what liberal/progressive judges the society has appointed when they don't appoint judges in the first place.
Oftentimes I point out when people are looking at the wrong branch of government, but in this case you are pretty much even looking at the wrong branch of society.
And that's not even getting into the tricky issue of, well maybe progressives are just plain wrong about the law. Which I would generally say is true, but a side issue.
If you want progressive policies implemented, well then work for the election of progressive congresspeople. It's counterproductive to point fingers at some ill-advised right-wing conspiracy involving the courts when really this is an issue of the legislative branch.
I am absolutely positive that you will continue to believe in these conspiracy theories about The Federalist Society.
I am personally absolutely positive that it is futile to try to talk about what is actually happening in the world, to actually talk about how these conspiracy theories are nonsense.
So yeah, I will have a nice life, and you have a nice life too. As best as you can. Well you believe this nonsense about the vast right wing conspiracies that circle around the echo chambers that it sounds like you are involved in.
You do you.
@volkris @TCatInReality @persagen
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Wrong branch of government?
They are trying to capture all.
Nomination of Justices?--Did you read the 3 links I provided? One from the still reputable #PoliticoMagazine, and these two:
I understand that it's hard to see organizations that one trusted for long time in a different light.
Take a look at this study, published only a few years after @scotus ruled that mass-laundering of #DarkMoney...
@volkris @TCatInReality @persagen @scotus
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...for political reasons was constitutional (#CitizensUnitedVsFEC:)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-money-funds-climate-change-denial-effort/
Search for #Koch, the billionaire brother behind the #FederalistsSociety, as you know:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-money-funds-climate-change-denial-effort/
...and you will find that they had foundca way to now hide their tracks:
"Meanwhile the traceable cash flow from more traditional sources, such as #koch Industries and ExxonMobil, has disappeared."
(The company that you keep--I guess you...
@volkris @persagen
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/110639014088920163
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/16/two-anonymous-425-million-donations-gives-dark-money-conservative-group-a-massive-haul-00067493
https://mas.to/@lindyli/109730222239500860
https://toad.social/@jimstewartson/109468404269494374
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@MattFerrel/110566064644139812