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Article: Federalist Society Has Close Gov't Ties
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- July 25, 2005
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07-25-2005
Dateline: WASHINGTON
The Federalist Society has close ties to the Bush administration and top legal leaders, including two Supreme Court justices.
The group, formally called the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, was founded in 1982 as a debating society by students who believed professors at the top law schools were too liberal. Early advisers were Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Justice Antonin Scalia, a former law professor at the University of Chicago.
Spencer Abraham, the Bush administration's former energy secretary, was a founder of the Harvard Law School chapter.
The group is named after the "Federalist Papers," in which James Madison, ...