In January 2019, The Washington Post Magazine wrote that the Federalist Society had reached an "unprecedented peak of power and influence." Of the current nine members of the Supreme Court of the United States, six (Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and Amy Coney Barrett) are current or former members of the organization. Politico Magazine wrote that the Federalist Society "has become one of the most influential legal organizations in history—not only shaping law stumembdents' thinking but changing American society itself by deliberately, diligently shifting the country's judiciary to the right."
The number of members of the attempted putsch against American democracy who are also members of the Federalist Society should be discovered or estimated because we already know there were a number of those who were insiders to the criminal conspiracy who were members of it. The number of those who are in the Congress who are either members or fellow travelers with them is certainly large, almost certainly all of them members of the Republican-fascist caucus.
When they went after the commies in the late 40s and early 50s, they had to invent a large conspiracy within the federal government but we know, for a fact, that the seditionists who are not just a figment of the self-promotion of Senator Joe McCarthy and who nearly succeeded in preventing the winner of the 2020 election taking office - as the Supreme Court did in 2000 (Note that Antonin Scalia, one of the Bush v Gore thugs was the original faculty advisor to the fascist group).
Also unlike the red scare which was largely based on lies, the faculty and other highly placed and influential members of the group so thickly involved with the putsch against American democracy are numerous and openly declared members of it, the list of "Notable Members" at the link to Wikipedia is disturbingly long with many well known and powerful people on it. It notes that the actual membership of the Chief "justice" of the Supreme Court, John Roberts is "disputed" though the footnote notes he rather daintily "doesn't remember" being a member of it though " the Federalist Society Lawyers Division Leadership Directory, 1997–1998, which listed Roberts as a member of the Washington chapter steering committee." It would seem that Roberts is trying to hide his participation in that sedition friendly group, perhaps he knows more about their intentions than is generally known and he wanted his deniability established.
I have to say, it's rather remarkable, how many Republican-fascists have such leaky memories. You have to wonder how they ever got to be so high and powerful, so many of them in jobs that require having a good memory. I expect that if the members of the Federalist Society are brought up to answer questions there will be an astonishing frequency of such bad memories among them. William Barr certainly has used that dodge while under the equivalent of an oath to tell the truth in the past.
I should explain my use of Wikipedia, a source I almost never cite. I assume that the article there is probably one that is under the active "editorship" of the Federalist Society so I would guess it is probably less shockingly revealing than other sources could be. I doubt what it says there is not about the least damaging account of it that could be given. I'm sure I'll be looking at what its critics have said about it a lot more. I hope that it becomes the focus of exactly what the red scare era investigations into the hardly dangerous commies was, honest, fair, probing and consequentially democracy protecting and enhancing.
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