{"id":321937,"date":"2021-03-04T17:27:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=321937"},"modified":"2023-11-08T20:07:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T01:07:01","slug":"in-audiobook-takeover-noah-feldman-lidia-jean-kott-explore-how-federalist-society-captured-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2021\/03\/in-audiobook-takeover-noah-feldman-lidia-jean-kott-explore-how-federalist-society-captured-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"The conservative club that came to dominate the Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<header\n\tclass=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-article-header alignfull article-header is-style-full-width-text-below centered-image\"\n\tstyle=\" \"\n>\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, and John Roberts.\" height=\"1667\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/takeover_2500.jpg\" width=\"2500\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><p class=\"wp-element-caption--caption\">Supreme Court Justices with Federalist Society ties: (clockwise from upper left) Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett.<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\t<div class=\"article-header__content\">\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\tclass=\"article-header__category\"\n\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/nation-world\/\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\tNation &amp; World\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t<h1 class=\"article-header__title wp-block-heading \">\n\t\tThe conservative club that came to dominate the Supreme Court\t<\/h1>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<div class=\"article-header__meta\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-post-author\">\n\t\t\t<address class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/address>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<time class=\"article-header__date\" datetime=\"2021-03-04\">\n\t\t\tMarch 4, 2021\t\t<\/time>\n\n\t\t<span class=\"article-header__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t5 min read\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-header__subheading wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\tIn a new audiobook, Law School professor explores the rise of the Federalist Society and why its sway may be waning\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\n<\/header>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\n\t\t<p>Beginning in the early 1980s, when it was not exactly cool to be a conservative law student, a small group of students started a club, named in honor of The Federalist Papers, where they could safely discuss their right-of-center views. Fast-forward 40 years and six of the nine sitting Supreme Court Justices are current or former members of that club.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushkin.fm\/audiobook\/takeover-noah-feldman\/\">Takeover: How a Conservative Student Club Captured the Supreme Court<\/a>\u201d (Pushkin Industries), Harvard Law School professor and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushkin.fm\/show\/deep-background\/\">Deep Background<\/a>\u201d podcast host <a href=\"https:\/\/hls.harvard.edu\/faculty\/directory\/10257\/Feldman\">Noah Feldman<\/a> explores the rise of the most influential legal organization in U.S. history and how it has managed to shape judicial policy over the last three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Feldman, one of the four legal scholars called upon to testify at the first impeachment hearings on former President Trump, with \u201cDeep Background\u201d co-host Lidia Jean Kott, takes listeners into the offices and chambers of the people who know the organization best.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the preface and start of Chapter 1, \u201cHow to Start a Revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n\r\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-audio-transcript audio-transcript-wrapper\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group audio-title-wrapper is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Takeover_5-min-clip.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\t<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t<summary>transcript<\/summary>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-group audio-transcript is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-buttons audio-transcript-button is-content-justification-center is-layout-flow wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">Close transcript<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading audio-transcript-header\">Transcript:<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-group audio-transcript-text is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p><b>RBGmontage&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Reporter 1:<\/b> Now a time for mourning for a remarkable career and life well-lived.<\/p>\n<p><b>Reporter 2:<\/b> U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87. <\/p>\n<p><b>Trump:<\/b> I stand before you today to fulfill one of my highest and important duties under the United States Constitution, the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice. <cheering> <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>Preface <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Noah Feldman:<\/b> When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September 2020, I knew one thing for sure.  <\/p>\n<p>The person that Donald Trump would nominate to replace her would be affiliated with a powerful organization called the Federalist Society. <\/p>\n<p>As a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, I spend a lot of my time watching the Supreme Court \u2014 it\u2019s a big part of my job. But this prediction did not take much in the way of high-level expertise.<\/p>\n<p>The two other Supreme Court Justices that Trump had already appointed, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh are both affiliated with the Federalist Society. So are 80&#37; of the judges that Trump had already appointed to the courts of appeals. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>The Federalist Society is a club for conservative and libertarian lawyers. It\u2019s focused on promoting conservative legal thought and on filling the American judiciary with like-minded allies. <\/p>\n<p>It was founded about 40 years ago by a bunch of law students, nerds really, who felt ostracized on their law school campuses because of their conservative views.<\/p>\n<p>Since then it\u2019s grown to become the most influential legal organization in the United States ever, capable of dramatically redefining American jurisprudence for decades to come.<\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music out><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>And sure enough Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who is closely affiliated with the Federalist Society:<\/p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Barrett:<\/b> I am honored and humbled to appear before you today as a nominee for associate justice of the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n<p>With Amy Coney Barrett  now on the Supreme Court, six of the nine Justices are current or former Federalist Society members.<\/p>\n<p>This book, adapted from a series on my podcast Deep Background, is the story of what the Federalist Society stands for, how it took over the Supreme Court, and why now that it has achieved extraordinary success, it may actually be about to fall apart. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>Chapter 1: How To Start a Revolution <\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>Let me take you back, now, 40 years exactly, to the fall of 1980. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>At that time it was not exactly cool to be a conservative law student. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Gary Lawson:<\/b> The atmosphere was, here&#8217;s the best way I can describe it.  <\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b><music out><\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\nAny time a student in class said anything that could remotely be considered right of center a good chunk of the class would hiss.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s Gary Lawson. He\u2019s now a law professor at Boston University. At the time, though, he was a first year law student at Yale. <\/p>\n<p>And yes, you heard him right, he said hiss. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Lawson:<\/b> Literally vocal hisss, in fact one of my counter-lines to that, \u201cIs something wrong with the heating system?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it wasn\u2019t just that most law students and professors were liberal, arguably aggressively so. <\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court was, too.<\/p>\n<p>For the previous few decades, there had been a liberal majority on the Supreme Court, led by lions like William Brennan and later Thurgood Marshall. The Court had made a series of transformative decisions that had a profound impact on the country. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, there was Brown against Board Education, argued by Thurgood Marshall before he actually became a Justice, where the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional. <\/p>\n<p>But there were others too \u2014 the Court held that Bible reading in public school was unconstitutional. It ruled that criminal suspects had to be informed of their right to remain silent before custodial interrogation, the famous Miranda decision. And, in the landmark case of Loving against Virginia, the Court said it was unconstitutional for the state to ban interracial marriage. <\/p>\n<p>Then, in 1973, shortly after Chief Justice Earl Warren retired and Chief Justice Warren Burger took over:<\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\nNumber 70, 18 Roe against Wade.<\/p>\n<p>For liberals, these decisions were a march of progress. <\/p>\n<p>But conservatives thought the Supreme Court Justices were going beyond their mandate to uphold the law. <\/p>\n<p>Ronald Reagan agreed.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe the public did too, because on November 4th, 1980, Reagan won the presidency \u2014 in a landslide.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/details>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\r\n\n\n<p><em>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushkin.fm\/\">Pushkin.fm<\/a> for more details.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-supporting-content alignleft supporting-content\" id=\"supporting-content-117451b0-5cc4-4e02-a7c5-64867c54fdbd\">\n\t<div class=\"featured-articles is-post-type-post is-style-grid-list\"  style=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"featured-articles__title wp-block-heading\">More like this<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"featured-articles__list \">\n\t\t\n\t\t<li class=\"featured-article \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"featured-article__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=1200%2C750\" class=\"attachment-large-landscape-desktop size-large-landscape-desktop\" alt=\"Ruth Bader Ginsburg casket at top of Supreme Court stairs.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=608,380 608w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=784,490 784w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=1024,640 1024w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=1200,750 1200w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=1488,930 1488w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=1680,1050 1680w\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"featured-article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/nation-world\/\">\n\t\t\tNation &amp; 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He\u2019s now a law professor at Boston University. At the time, though, he was a first year law student at Yale. <\/p>\n<p>And yes, you heard him right, he said hiss. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Lawson:<\/b> Literally vocal hisss, in fact one of my counter-lines to that, \u201cIs something wrong with the heating system?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it wasn\u2019t just that most law students and professors were liberal, arguably aggressively so. <\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court was, too.<\/p>\n<p>For the previous few decades, there had been a liberal majority on the Supreme Court, led by lions like William Brennan and later Thurgood Marshall. 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And, in the landmark case of Loving against Virginia, the Court said it was unconstitutional for the state to ban interracial marriage. <\/p>\n<p>Then, in 1973, shortly after Chief Justice Earl Warren retired and Chief Justice Warren Burger took over:<\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\nNumber 70, 18 Roe against Wade.<\/p>\n<p>For liberals, these decisions were a march of progress. <\/p>\n<p>But conservatives thought the Supreme Court Justices were going beyond their mandate to uphold the law. <\/p>\n<p>Ronald Reagan agreed.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe the public did too, because on November 4th, 1980, Reagan won the presidency \u2014 in a landslide.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t"],"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<p><b>RBGmontage...<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Reporter 1:<\/b> Now a time for mourning for a remarkable career and life well-lived.<\/p>\n<p><b>Reporter 2:<\/b> U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87. <\/p>\n<p><b>Trump:<\/b> I stand before you today to fulfill one of my highest and important duties under the United States Constitution, the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice. <cheering> <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>Preface <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Noah Feldman:<\/b> When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September 2020, I knew one thing for sure.  <\/p>\n<p>The person that Donald Trump would nominate to replace her would be affiliated with a powerful organization called the Federalist Society. <\/p>\n<p>As a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, I spend a lot of my time watching the Supreme Court \u2014 it\u2019s a big part of my job. But this prediction did not take much in the way of high-level expertise.<\/p>\n<p>The two other Supreme Court Justices that Trump had already appointed, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh are both affiliated with the Federalist Society. So are 80&#37; of the judges that Trump had already appointed to the courts of appeals. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>The Federalist Society is a club for conservative and libertarian lawyers. It\u2019s focused on promoting conservative legal thought and on filling the American judiciary with like-minded allies. <\/p>\n<p>It was founded about 40 years ago by a bunch of law students, nerds really, who felt ostracized on their law school campuses because of their conservative views.<\/p>\n<p>Since then it\u2019s grown to become the most influential legal organization in the United States ever, capable of dramatically redefining American jurisprudence for decades to come.<\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music out><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>And sure enough Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who is closely affiliated with the Federalist Society:<\/p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Barrett:<\/b> I am honored and humbled to appear before you today as a nominee for associate justice of the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n<p>With Amy Coney Barrett  now on the Supreme Court, six of the nine Justices are current or former Federalist Society members.<\/p>\n<p>This book, adapted from a series on my podcast Deep Background, is the story of what the Federalist Society stands for, how it took over the Supreme Court, and why now that it has achieved extraordinary success, it may actually be about to fall apart. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>Chapter 1: How To Start a Revolution <\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>Let me take you back, now, 40 years exactly, to the fall of 1980. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>At that time it was not exactly cool to be a conservative law student. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Gary Lawson:<\/b> The atmosphere was, here's the best way I can describe it.  <\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b><music out><\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\nAny time a student in class said anything that could remotely be considered right of center a good chunk of the class would hiss.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s Gary Lawson. He\u2019s now a law professor at Boston University. At the time, though, he was a first year law student at Yale. <\/p>\n<p>And yes, you heard him right, he said hiss. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Lawson:<\/b> Literally vocal hisss, in fact one of my counter-lines to that, \u201cIs something wrong with the heating system?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it wasn\u2019t just that most law students and professors were liberal, arguably aggressively so. <\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court was, too.<\/p>\n<p>For the previous few decades, there had been a liberal majority on the Supreme Court, led by lions like William Brennan and later Thurgood Marshall. 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But this prediction did not take much in the way of high-level expertise.<\/p>\n<p>The two other Supreme Court Justices that Trump had already appointed, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh are both affiliated with the Federalist Society. So are 80&#37; of the judges that Trump had already appointed to the courts of appeals. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>The Federalist Society is a club for conservative and libertarian lawyers. It\u2019s focused on promoting conservative legal thought and on filling the American judiciary with like-minded allies. <\/p>\n<p>It was founded about 40 years ago by a bunch of law students, nerds really, who felt ostracized on their law school campuses because of their conservative views.<\/p>\n<p>Since then it\u2019s grown to become the most influential legal organization in the United States ever, capable of dramatically redefining American jurisprudence for decades to come.<\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music out><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>And sure enough Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who is closely affiliated with the Federalist Society:<\/p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Barrett:<\/b> I am honored and humbled to appear before you today as a nominee for associate justice of the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n<p>With Amy Coney Barrett  now on the Supreme Court, six of the nine Justices are current or former Federalist Society members.<\/p>\n<p>This book, adapted from a series on my podcast Deep Background, is the story of what the Federalist Society stands for, how it took over the Supreme Court, and why now that it has achieved extraordinary success, it may actually be about to fall apart. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>Chapter 1: How To Start a Revolution <\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>Let me take you back, now, 40 years exactly, to the fall of 1980. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>At that time it was not exactly cool to be a conservative law student. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Gary Lawson:<\/b> The atmosphere was, here's the best way I can describe it.  <\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b><music out><\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\nAny time a student in class said anything that could remotely be considered right of center a good chunk of the class would hiss.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s Gary Lawson. He\u2019s now a law professor at Boston University. At the time, though, he was a first year law student at Yale. <\/p>\n<p>And yes, you heard him right, he said hiss. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Lawson:<\/b> Literally vocal hisss, in fact one of my counter-lines to that, \u201cIs something wrong with the heating system?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it wasn\u2019t just that most law students and professors were liberal, arguably aggressively so. <\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court was, too.<\/p>\n<p>For the previous few decades, there had been a liberal majority on the Supreme Court, led by lions like William Brennan and later Thurgood Marshall. The Court had made a series of transformative decisions that had a profound impact on the country. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, there was Brown against Board Education, argued by Thurgood Marshall before he actually became a Justice, where the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional. <\/p>\n<p>But there were others too \u2014 the Court held that Bible reading in public school was unconstitutional. It ruled that criminal suspects had to be informed of their right to remain silent before custodial interrogation, the famous Miranda decision. 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But this prediction did not take much in the way of high-level expertise.<\/p>\n<p>The two other Supreme Court Justices that Trump had already appointed, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh are both affiliated with the Federalist Society. So are 80&#37; of the judges that Trump had already appointed to the courts of appeals. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>The Federalist Society is a club for conservative and libertarian lawyers. It\u2019s focused on promoting conservative legal thought and on filling the American judiciary with like-minded allies. <\/p>\n<p>It was founded about 40 years ago by a bunch of law students, nerds really, who felt ostracized on their law school campuses because of their conservative views.<\/p>\n<p>Since then it\u2019s grown to become the most influential legal organization in the United States ever, capable of dramatically redefining American jurisprudence for decades to come.<\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music out><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>And sure enough Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who is closely affiliated with the Federalist Society:<\/p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Barrett:<\/b> I am honored and humbled to appear before you today as a nominee for associate justice of the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n<p>With Amy Coney Barrett  now on the Supreme Court, six of the nine Justices are current or former Federalist Society members.<\/p>\n<p>This book, adapted from a series on my podcast Deep Background, is the story of what the Federalist Society stands for, how it took over the Supreme Court, and why now that it has achieved extraordinary success, it may actually be about to fall apart. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>Chapter 1: How To Start a Revolution <\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>Let me take you back, now, 40 years exactly, to the fall of 1980. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>At that time it was not exactly cool to be a conservative law student. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Gary Lawson:<\/b> The atmosphere was, here's the best way I can describe it.  <\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b><music out><\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\nAny time a student in class said anything that could remotely be considered right of center a good chunk of the class would hiss.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s Gary Lawson. He\u2019s now a law professor at Boston University. At the time, though, he was a first year law student at Yale. <\/p>\n<p>And yes, you heard him right, he said hiss. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Lawson:<\/b> Literally vocal hisss, in fact one of my counter-lines to that, \u201cIs something wrong with the heating system?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it wasn\u2019t just that most law students and professors were liberal, arguably aggressively so. <\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court was, too.<\/p>\n<p>For the previous few decades, there had been a liberal majority on the Supreme Court, led by lions like William Brennan and later Thurgood Marshall. The Court had made a series of transformative decisions that had a profound impact on the country. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, there was Brown against Board Education, argued by Thurgood Marshall before he actually became a Justice, where the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional. <\/p>\n<p>But there were others too \u2014 the Court held that Bible reading in public school was unconstitutional. It ruled that criminal suspects had to be informed of their right to remain silent before custodial interrogation, the famous Miranda decision. And, in the landmark case of Loving against Virginia, the Court said it was unconstitutional for the state to ban interracial marriage. <\/p>\n<p>Then, in 1973, shortly after Chief Justice Earl Warren retired and Chief Justice Warren Burger took over:<\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\nNumber 70, 18 Roe against Wade.<\/p>\n<p>For liberals, these decisions were a march of progress. <\/p>\n<p>But conservatives thought the Supreme Court Justices were going beyond their mandate to uphold the law. <\/p>\n<p>Ronald Reagan agreed.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe the public did too, because on November 4th, 1980, Reagan won the presidency \u2014 in a landslide.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t"}],"innerHTML":"\n\t<details class=\"wp-block-details\">\n\t\t<summary>transcript<\/summary>\n\t\t\n\t<\/details>\n","innerContent":["\n\t<details class=\"wp-block-details\">\n\t\t<summary>transcript<\/summary>\n\t\t","\n\t<\/details>\n"],"rendered":"\n\t<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t<summary>transcript<\/summary>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-group audio-transcript is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-buttons audio-transcript-button is-content-justification-center is-layout-flow wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">Close transcript<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading audio-transcript-header\">Transcript:<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-group audio-transcript-text is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p><b>RBGmontage...<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Reporter 1:<\/b> Now a time for mourning for a remarkable career and life well-lived.<\/p>\n<p><b>Reporter 2:<\/b> U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87. <\/p>\n<p><b>Trump:<\/b> I stand before you today to fulfill one of my highest and important duties under the United States Constitution, the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice. <cheering> <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>Preface <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Noah Feldman:<\/b> When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September 2020, I knew one thing for sure.  <\/p>\n<p>The person that Donald Trump would nominate to replace her would be affiliated with a powerful organization called the Federalist Society. <\/p>\n<p>As a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, I spend a lot of my time watching the Supreme Court \u2014 it\u2019s a big part of my job. But this prediction did not take much in the way of high-level expertise.<\/p>\n<p>The two other Supreme Court Justices that Trump had already appointed, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh are both affiliated with the Federalist Society. So are 80&#37; of the judges that Trump had already appointed to the courts of appeals. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>The Federalist Society is a club for conservative and libertarian lawyers. It\u2019s focused on promoting conservative legal thought and on filling the American judiciary with like-minded allies. <\/p>\n<p>It was founded about 40 years ago by a bunch of law students, nerds really, who felt ostracized on their law school campuses because of their conservative views.<\/p>\n<p>Since then it\u2019s grown to become the most influential legal organization in the United States ever, capable of dramatically redefining American jurisprudence for decades to come.<\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music out><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>And sure enough Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who is closely affiliated with the Federalist Society:<\/p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Barrett:<\/b> I am honored and humbled to appear before you today as a nominee for associate justice of the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n<p>With Amy Coney Barrett  now on the Supreme Court, six of the nine Justices are current or former Federalist Society members.<\/p>\n<p>This book, adapted from a series on my podcast Deep Background, is the story of what the Federalist Society stands for, how it took over the Supreme Court, and why now that it has achieved extraordinary success, it may actually be about to fall apart. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>Chapter 1: How To Start a Revolution <\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>Let me take you back, now, 40 years exactly, to the fall of 1980. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>At that time it was not exactly cool to be a conservative law student. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Gary Lawson:<\/b> The atmosphere was, here's the best way I can describe it.  <\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b><music out><\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\nAny time a student in class said anything that could remotely be considered right of center a good chunk of the class would hiss.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s Gary Lawson. He\u2019s now a law professor at Boston University. At the time, though, he was a first year law student at Yale. <\/p>\n<p>And yes, you heard him right, he said hiss. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Lawson:<\/b> Literally vocal hisss, in fact one of my counter-lines to that, \u201cIs something wrong with the heating system?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it wasn\u2019t just that most law students and professors were liberal, arguably aggressively so. <\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court was, too.<\/p>\n<p>For the previous few decades, there had been a liberal majority on the Supreme Court, led by lions like William Brennan and later Thurgood Marshall. The Court had made a series of transformative decisions that had a profound impact on the country. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, there was Brown against Board Education, argued by Thurgood Marshall before he actually became a Justice, where the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional. <\/p>\n<p>But there were others too \u2014 the Court held that Bible reading in public school was unconstitutional. It ruled that criminal suspects had to be informed of their right to remain silent before custodial interrogation, the famous Miranda decision. And, in the landmark case of Loving against Virginia, the Court said it was unconstitutional for the state to ban interracial marriage. <\/p>\n<p>Then, in 1973, shortly after Chief Justice Earl Warren retired and Chief Justice Warren Burger took over:<\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\nNumber 70, 18 Roe against Wade.<\/p>\n<p>For liberals, these decisions were a march of progress. <\/p>\n<p>But conservatives thought the Supreme Court Justices were going beyond their mandate to uphold the law. <\/p>\n<p>Ronald Reagan agreed.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe the public did too, because on November 4th, 1980, Reagan won the presidency \u2014 in a landslide.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/details>\n"}],"innerHTML":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-audio-transcript audio-transcript-wrapper\">\n\n\n<\/div>\n","innerContent":["\n<div class=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-audio-transcript audio-transcript-wrapper\">\n","\n","\n<\/div>\n"],"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-audio-transcript audio-transcript-wrapper\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group audio-title-wrapper is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Takeover_5-min-clip.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\t<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t<summary>transcript<\/summary>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-group audio-transcript is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-buttons audio-transcript-button is-content-justification-center is-layout-flow wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">Close transcript<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading audio-transcript-header\">Transcript:<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-group audio-transcript-text is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p><b>RBGmontage...<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Reporter 1:<\/b> Now a time for mourning for a remarkable career and life well-lived.<\/p>\n<p><b>Reporter 2:<\/b> U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87. <\/p>\n<p><b>Trump:<\/b> I stand before you today to fulfill one of my highest and important duties under the United States Constitution, the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice. <cheering> <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>Preface <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Noah Feldman:<\/b> When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September 2020, I knew one thing for sure.  <\/p>\n<p>The person that Donald Trump would nominate to replace her would be affiliated with a powerful organization called the Federalist Society. <\/p>\n<p>As a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, I spend a lot of my time watching the Supreme Court \u2014 it\u2019s a big part of my job. But this prediction did not take much in the way of high-level expertise.<\/p>\n<p>The two other Supreme Court Justices that Trump had already appointed, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh are both affiliated with the Federalist Society. So are 80&#37; of the judges that Trump had already appointed to the courts of appeals. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>The Federalist Society is a club for conservative and libertarian lawyers. It\u2019s focused on promoting conservative legal thought and on filling the American judiciary with like-minded allies. <\/p>\n<p>It was founded about 40 years ago by a bunch of law students, nerds really, who felt ostracized on their law school campuses because of their conservative views.<\/p>\n<p>Since then it\u2019s grown to become the most influential legal organization in the United States ever, capable of dramatically redefining American jurisprudence for decades to come.<\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music out><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>And sure enough Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who is closely affiliated with the Federalist Society:<\/p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Barrett:<\/b> I am honored and humbled to appear before you today as a nominee for associate justice of the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n<p>With Amy Coney Barrett  now on the Supreme Court, six of the nine Justices are current or former Federalist Society members.<\/p>\n<p>This book, adapted from a series on my podcast Deep Background, is the story of what the Federalist Society stands for, how it took over the Supreme Court, and why now that it has achieved extraordinary success, it may actually be about to fall apart. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>Chapter 1: How To Start a Revolution <\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>Let me take you back, now, 40 years exactly, to the fall of 1980. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>At that time it was not exactly cool to be a conservative law student. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Gary Lawson:<\/b> The atmosphere was, here's the best way I can describe it.  <\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b><music out><\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\nAny time a student in class said anything that could remotely be considered right of center a good chunk of the class would hiss.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s Gary Lawson. He\u2019s now a law professor at Boston University. At the time, though, he was a first year law student at Yale. <\/p>\n<p>And yes, you heard him right, he said hiss. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Lawson:<\/b> Literally vocal hisss, in fact one of my counter-lines to that, \u201cIs something wrong with the heating system?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it wasn\u2019t just that most law students and professors were liberal, arguably aggressively so. <\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court was, too.<\/p>\n<p>For the previous few decades, there had been a liberal majority on the Supreme Court, led by lions like William Brennan and later Thurgood Marshall. The Court had made a series of transformative decisions that had a profound impact on the country. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, there was Brown against Board Education, argued by Thurgood Marshall before he actually became a Justice, where the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional. <\/p>\n<p>But there were others too \u2014 the Court held that Bible reading in public school was unconstitutional. It ruled that criminal suspects had to be informed of their right to remain silent before custodial interrogation, the famous Miranda decision. And, in the landmark case of Loving against Virginia, the Court said it was unconstitutional for the state to ban interracial marriage. <\/p>\n<p>Then, in 1973, shortly after Chief Justice Earl Warren retired and Chief Justice Warren Burger took over:<\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\nNumber 70, 18 Roe against Wade.<\/p>\n<p>For liberals, these decisions were a march of progress. <\/p>\n<p>But conservatives thought the Supreme Court Justices were going beyond their mandate to uphold the law. <\/p>\n<p>Ronald Reagan agreed.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe the public did too, because on November 4th, 1980, Reagan won the presidency \u2014 in a landslide.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/details>\n\n<\/div>\n"},{"blockName":"core\/freeform","attrs":{"content":"","lock":[],"metadata":[]},"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"\n\n<p><em>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushkin.fm\/\">Pushkin.fm<\/a> for more details.<\/em><\/p>\n\n","innerContent":["\n\n<p><em>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushkin.fm\/\">Pushkin.fm<\/a> for more details.<\/em><\/p>\n\n"],"rendered":"\n\n<p><em>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushkin.fm\/\">Pushkin.fm<\/a> for more details.<\/em><\/p>\n\n"},{"blockName":"harvard-gazette\/supporting-content","attrs":{"id":"117451b0-5cc4-4e02-a7c5-64867c54fdbd","align":"left","allowedBlocks":[],"style":[],"lock":[],"metadata":[],"className":""},"innerBlocks":[{"blockName":"harvard-gazette\/featured-articles","attrs":{"autoGenerate":false,"className":"is-style-grid-list","inPostContent":true,"numberOfPosts":2,"postIds":[312723,314094],"showExcerpt":false,"title":"More like this","category":"","carouselOnDesktop":false,"isEditor":false,"linkText":"See all book reviews","passPostIds":false,"postOverrides":[],"postTypeOverride":"post","receivePostIds":false,"series":"","showCategory":true,"showDate":true,"gridColumns":2,"showDropShadow":false,"showFormat":true,"showImage":true,"showImageZoom":false,"showSeries":true,"showReadMore":true,"showReadTime":true,"tags":[],"useCurrentTerm":false,"lock":[],"metadata":[],"align":"","style":[]},"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"","innerContent":[],"rendered":"\n\t<div class=\"featured-articles is-post-type-post is-style-grid-list\"  style=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"featured-articles__title wp-block-heading\">More like this<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"featured-articles__list \">\n\t\t\n\t\t<li class=\"featured-article \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"featured-article__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=1200%2C750\" class=\"attachment-large-landscape-desktop size-large-landscape-desktop\" alt=\"Ruth Bader Ginsburg casket at top of Supreme Court stairs.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=608,380 608w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=784,490 784w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=1024,640 1024w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=1200,750 1200w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=1488,930 1488w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=1680,1050 1680w\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"featured-article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/nation-world\/\">\n\t\t\tNation &amp; 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Nope, legal scholar says<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"featured-article__date\" datetime=\"2020-10-15\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 15, 2020\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/time>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"featured-article__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlong read\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>"},{"blockName":"core\/freeform","attrs":{"content":"","lock":[],"metadata":[]},"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"\n\n\n","innerContent":["\n\n\n"],"rendered":"\n\n\n"}],"innerHTML":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\">\n\n\r\n\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\n\n<\/div>\n","innerContent":["\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\">\n\n","\r\n","\n\r\n","\r\n","\r\n","\n\n<\/div>\n"],"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\n\t\t<p>Beginning in the early 1980s, when it was not exactly cool to be a conservative law student, a small group of students started a club, named in honor of The Federalist Papers, where they could safely discuss their right-of-center views. Fast-forward 40 years and six of the nine sitting Supreme Court Justices are current or former members of that club.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushkin.fm\/audiobook\/takeover-noah-feldman\/\">Takeover: How a Conservative Student Club Captured the Supreme Court<\/a>\u201d (Pushkin Industries), Harvard Law School professor and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushkin.fm\/show\/deep-background\/\">Deep Background<\/a>\u201d podcast host <a href=\"https:\/\/hls.harvard.edu\/faculty\/directory\/10257\/Feldman\">Noah Feldman<\/a> explores the rise of the most influential legal organization in U.S. history and how it has managed to shape judicial policy over the last three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Feldman, one of the four legal scholars called upon to testify at the first impeachment hearings on former President Trump, with \u201cDeep Background\u201d co-host Lidia Jean Kott, takes listeners into the offices and chambers of the people who know the organization best.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the preface and start of Chapter 1, \u201cHow to Start a Revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n\r\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-audio-transcript audio-transcript-wrapper\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group audio-title-wrapper is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Takeover_5-min-clip.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\t<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t<summary>transcript<\/summary>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-group audio-transcript is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-buttons audio-transcript-button is-content-justification-center is-layout-flow wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">Close transcript<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading audio-transcript-header\">Transcript:<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-group audio-transcript-text is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p><b>RBGmontage...<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Reporter 1:<\/b> Now a time for mourning for a remarkable career and life well-lived.<\/p>\n<p><b>Reporter 2:<\/b> U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87. <\/p>\n<p><b>Trump:<\/b> I stand before you today to fulfill one of my highest and important duties under the United States Constitution, the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice. <cheering> <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>Preface <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Noah Feldman:<\/b> When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September 2020, I knew one thing for sure.  <\/p>\n<p>The person that Donald Trump would nominate to replace her would be affiliated with a powerful organization called the Federalist Society. <\/p>\n<p>As a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, I spend a lot of my time watching the Supreme Court \u2014 it\u2019s a big part of my job. But this prediction did not take much in the way of high-level expertise.<\/p>\n<p>The two other Supreme Court Justices that Trump had already appointed, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh are both affiliated with the Federalist Society. So are 80&#37; of the judges that Trump had already appointed to the courts of appeals. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>The Federalist Society is a club for conservative and libertarian lawyers. It\u2019s focused on promoting conservative legal thought and on filling the American judiciary with like-minded allies. <\/p>\n<p>It was founded about 40 years ago by a bunch of law students, nerds really, who felt ostracized on their law school campuses because of their conservative views.<\/p>\n<p>Since then it\u2019s grown to become the most influential legal organization in the United States ever, capable of dramatically redefining American jurisprudence for decades to come.<\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music out><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>And sure enough Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who is closely affiliated with the Federalist Society:<\/p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Barrett:<\/b> I am honored and humbled to appear before you today as a nominee for associate justice of the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n<p>With Amy Coney Barrett  now on the Supreme Court, six of the nine Justices are current or former Federalist Society members.<\/p>\n<p>This book, adapted from a series on my podcast Deep Background, is the story of what the Federalist Society stands for, how it took over the Supreme Court, and why now that it has achieved extraordinary success, it may actually be about to fall apart. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>Chapter 1: How To Start a Revolution <\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>Let me take you back, now, 40 years exactly, to the fall of 1980. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b><music><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>At that time it was not exactly cool to be a conservative law student. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Gary Lawson:<\/b> The atmosphere was, here's the best way I can describe it.  <\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b><music out><\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\nAny time a student in class said anything that could remotely be considered right of center a good chunk of the class would hiss.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s Gary Lawson. He\u2019s now a law professor at Boston University. At the time, though, he was a first year law student at Yale. <\/p>\n<p>And yes, you heard him right, he said hiss. <\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<b>Lawson:<\/b> Literally vocal hisss, in fact one of my counter-lines to that, \u201cIs something wrong with the heating system?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it wasn\u2019t just that most law students and professors were liberal, arguably aggressively so. <\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court was, too.<\/p>\n<p>For the previous few decades, there had been a liberal majority on the Supreme Court, led by lions like William Brennan and later Thurgood Marshall. The Court had made a series of transformative decisions that had a profound impact on the country. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, there was Brown against Board Education, argued by Thurgood Marshall before he actually became a Justice, where the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional. <\/p>\n<p>But there were others too \u2014 the Court held that Bible reading in public school was unconstitutional. It ruled that criminal suspects had to be informed of their right to remain silent before custodial interrogation, the famous Miranda decision. And, in the landmark case of Loving against Virginia, the Court said it was unconstitutional for the state to ban interracial marriage. <\/p>\n<p>Then, in 1973, shortly after Chief Justice Earl Warren retired and Chief Justice Warren Burger took over:<\/p>\n<p>\n<p><b>CLIP<\/b><\/p>\n<p><p>\nNumber 70, 18 Roe against Wade.<\/p>\n<p>For liberals, these decisions were a march of progress. <\/p>\n<p>But conservatives thought the Supreme Court Justices were going beyond their mandate to uphold the law. <\/p>\n<p>Ronald Reagan agreed.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe the public did too, because on November 4th, 1980, Reagan won the presidency \u2014 in a landslide.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/details>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\r\n\n\n<p><em>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushkin.fm\/\">Pushkin.fm<\/a> for more details.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-supporting-content alignleft supporting-content\" id=\"supporting-content-117451b0-5cc4-4e02-a7c5-64867c54fdbd\">\n\t<div class=\"featured-articles is-post-type-post is-style-grid-list\"  style=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"featured-articles__title wp-block-heading\">More like this<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"featured-articles__list \">\n\t\t\n\t\t<li class=\"featured-article \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"featured-article__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=1200%2C750\" class=\"attachment-large-landscape-desktop size-large-landscape-desktop\" alt=\"Ruth Bader Ginsburg casket at top of Supreme Court stairs.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=608,380 608w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=784,490 784w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=1024,640 1024w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=1200,750 1200w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=1488,930 1488w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Supreme_Court_AP_20267730941068_H_2500.jpg?resize=1680,1050 1680w\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"featured-article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/nation-world\/\">\n\t\t\tNation &amp; 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