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Article: Liberals Form Counter to Federalist Society
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- The Washington Post
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- August 1, 2001
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An all-star cast of veteran liberals, including former attorney
general Janet Reno, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund President
Elaine Jones, former judge Abner J. Mikva, Harvard Law professor
Laurence H. Tribe and former solicitor general Walter Dellinger, has
joined forces to support a new legal organization to counter the
conservative Federalist Society.
An overflow crowd of more than 300 showed up at a kickoff event
Monday night for the American Constitution Society at Georgetown
University Law Center.
"Over the years, we have been out-hustled," Mikva told the
enthusiastic gathering. "You can return justice to the law again,"
demonstrating "that rigorous legal thinking is consistent ...