Federalist Society keeps grip on Trump judicial nominations
16, 2017. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz) President Trump’s public break with the Federalist Society, the sprawling conservative legal organization, created uncertainty over the types of nominations he’d make to the courts in his second term. Now 16 months in, Trump’s new nominees aren’t so different from the last crop of jurists he tapped for the bench. Key figures associated with the group have long advised conservative presidents on their judicial appointees, making Trump’s shunning over frustrations that the judges they vetted for his choosing weren’t loyal enough to his agenda a dramatic departure.
- ▪16, 2017. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz) President Trump’s public break with the Federalist Society, the sprawling conservative legal organization, created uncertainty over the types of nominations he’d make to the courts in his second term.
- ▪Now 16 months in, Trump’s new nominees aren’t so different from the last crop of jurists he tapped for the bench.
- ▪Key figures associated with the group have long advised conservative presidents on their judicial appointees, making Trump’s shunning over frustrations that the judges they vetted for his choosing weren’t loyal enough to his agenda a dramat
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The Gavel Federalist Society keeps grip on Trump judicial nominations by Ella Lee and Zach Schonfeld - 05/20/26 8:00 AM ET Link copied by Ella Lee and Zach Schonfeld - 05/20/26 8:00 AM ET Link copied Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society, speaks at the 2017 National Lawyers Convention in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz) President Trump’s public break with the Federalist Society, the sprawling conservative legal organization, created uncertainty over the types of nominations he’d make to the courts in his second term. Now 16 months in, Trump’s new nominees aren’t so different from the last crop of jurists he tapped for the bench.
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