Good morning. It is Sunday, July the 7th. I'm Ali Velshi.

Another Supreme Court term came to a close last week, and we are stepping into a new era

created by the court's radical remaking of American law.

We've already seen the conservative supermajority on the court roll back

long-held personal rights and force the country to the right with its overturning of Roe v.

Wade and its gutting of affirmative action. But the brazenness with which this court has

operated during this year's historic term has been a shock to the system. In the past few months alone, the justices handed Donald

Trump multiple lifelines, including a major victory that could help him avoid criminal prosecution,

even for trying to overturn the results of an election and for leading an insurrection.

The court's decision on presidential immunity could fundamentally reshape the federal government, as could a series

of decisions that strips the regulatory powers of the administrative state. But none of this

happened by accident. The transformation of the Supreme Court has been part of a decades-long effort

spearheaded by something called the Federalist Society, a nationwide organization and a

professional network of conservative lawyers. It's a leading proponent of originalism, an approach

to interpreting laws based on the plain meaning of the text of the Constitution and how it was

understood at the time that it was written. It's an approach that ultimately led to the fall of

Roe. Since it was founded in 1982, the Federalist Society has been a resource for generations of

conservative lawyers and jurists and other legal minds, and the group has also helped many of them

rise up the ranks of the judiciary. All six of the conservative justices on the Supreme Court

today are current or former members of the Federalist Society. In fact, five of those six justices

were chosen with the help of one man in particular. This man, Leonard Leo, he's a right-wing

mega-donor and co-chair of the Federalist Society.

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