Senate Republicans are pushing to quickly confirm Emil Bove to a spot on a federal appellate court, as the president’s former ...

Even as Donald Trump has fumed at the conservative legal group, it remains the most influential player in Republican judicial nominations.

President Trump helped reshape the federal courts during his first term in office. And he relied heavily on the Federalist ...

The Federalist Society doesn’t exert its influence in ways that are familiar to observers of American politics. As a self-professed “society of ideas,” the Federalist Society exerts its ...

The Federalist Society, which promotes originalism, also helped Trump choose Supreme Court nominees. Critics, including some Democratic lawmakers, say the group has too much influence on the court.

The Federalist Society, which advocates strictly interpreting the Constitution according to what conservatives say was its original meaning, ...

Another prominent Federalist, Princeton Prof. Robert George, who has chaired the society's Religious Liberties Executive Committee, was crucial in killing the bid of Montana Gov. Marc Racicot to ...

This is the Federalist Society that was on display during McConnell and Barr’s speeches last week. We saw a rare public glimpse of it during McConnell’s address, when he bragged that “we ...

What the Federalist Society proved to the world is that you can be a talentless hack and get a federal judgeship, or even a seat on an appeals court or on the Supreme Court during Republican ...

The Federalist Society scoped out the legal aspect of Falwell and Weyrich’s new strategy, and it found that abortion proved to be an excellent litmus test for likely members of the radical right.

Federalist Society lawyers flood the court with amicus briefs, including in the Harvard and UNC cases that killed affirmative action. The Federalist Society nurtures its base well.