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Article: Federalist Society Marks Anniversary
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- November 15, 2002
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ Now 20 years old, the Federalist Society has grown
from a tiny group of conservative college students to an influential
power in Washington, though most people still don't recognize its
name.
President Bush turns to the lawyers' group for judicial candidates.
Attorney General John Ashcroft fills his staff with its members. Two
other Bush Cabinet members, the president's top Supreme Court lawyer
and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia were involved in the group'
s founding.
"Who would have thought 20 years ago that that little organization
of students at a couple of law schools would have evolved today to
a power of such proportions?" ...