The Federalist Society, part 1: Immodest Origins

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

There's a powerfully connected right-wing organization operating at every elite law school in the nation. It built itself by leveraging the conservative victim complex, the Reagan revolution, networks of judges and activists, and cold hard psycho millionaire cash. This is the story of the Federalist Society.

If you can't get enough of these monsters, you may want to read The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law (Princeton, 2008) by Steven Teles, or listen to ProPublica and WNYC's "We Don't Talk About Leonard" series on On the Media.

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0:00.0	This special five to four series is brought to you by People's Parity Project,
0:04.8	organizing to UnFuck the Law since 2018.
0:08.6	It really is true that this is one of my favorite organizations in the whole country.
0:13.4	Hey everyone, this is Leon from fiasco and prologue projects.
0:21.1	On this episode of 5-4, Peter, Rianen, and Michael are digging in to the Federalist
0:26.7	Society. Fedsock organises at law schools to combat quote orthodox liberal ideology, but its influence extends far beyond campus.
0:36.7	This is the first episode of a four-part series about FedSOC.
0:40.1	Today, the host are talking about how the organization went from being a small group of disgruntled conservative students to hand-picking judges for the highest court in the land.
0:50.0	This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court and the Federal Society suck.
0:59.0	Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have ruined our
1:03.8	constitution like the Polar Vortex is ruining my week. I'm Peter I'm here with
1:09.2	Michael. Hey everybody and Rianin. Hi it's ruining my week and I'm in Texas.
1:14.4	I don't know if it's polar vortex, but it's low on the thermometer and it doesn't
1:18.8	feel good.
1:19.8	No, it's cold.
1:20.8	Don't like it. Yeah.
1:21.8	I live in a wind tunnel right off the east river in Queens and walking down the street
1:29.4	when it's super windy is genuinely embarrassing because like I will just be getting
1:35.9	knocked around by the wind like a toddler just you know just bouncing like trying to get my
1:41.7	balance or like one of those silent movies, like a whole movie back in the day was just trying to fight wind walking down the block.
1:51.0	Yeah, it's like a Charlie Chaplin flick. That's Peter.
1:53.2	Do you hear some piano music in your head as you're doing it? The worst part is that you'll
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