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Article: Federalist Society grows to prominence in 20 years Small group of conservative students becomes an influential power
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 16, 2002
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Federalist Society grows to prominence in 20 years
Small group of conservative students becomes an influential power
By GINA HOLLAND Associated Press
Saturday, November 16, 2002
Washington -- 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, as well as the president's top Supreme
Court lawyer and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, were involved
in the group's founding.
"Who would have ...