The Federalist Society has taken over the Main Hall of Union Station for its annual black-tie gala. “Let the politicians build the coalitions” to confirm conservative judges and roll back the administrative state, Olowski says. “When we started the Federalist Society, we didn’t know we were starting the Federalist Society,” Lee Liberman Otis, one of the Chicago co-founders, told me. A student invited him to speak on a panel at one of the early Federalist Society national student symposiums. “ACS was very explicitly founded to do the same kind of work that the Federalist Society has done,” Fredrickson says.

Source: Washington Post January 02, 2019 16:24 UTC