A description of the Federalist Society from the Washington Monthly - a centrist Democratic publication
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Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
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Typo Boy - Jul 25, 2005 6:48:13 am PDT #2609 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
bon bon - Jul 25, 2005 7:04:31 am PDT #2610 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I don't remember my friends in the Federalist Society-- one of my best friends was the president of Michigan's chapter-- being particularly lunatic. Did someone explain what is wrong with the Federalists, and I somehow missed it? Because it's pretty much the only national law school group for conservatives, so if you were conservative and in law school, you probably were in it.
shrift - Jul 25, 2005 7:08:45 am PDT #2611 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I'm trying to convince myself that I don't want a personal pan pizza for lunch.
Typo Boy - Jul 25, 2005 7:12:45 am PDT #2612 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I think their ideas are fairly lunatic. I don't want people with those ideas on the supreme court. Probably "extremist" is a better word. You can be an extremely nice person and still hold extremist ideas.
Gudanov - Jul 25, 2005 7:13:19 am PDT #2613 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Personal Pan Pizza's are people!
That help?
shrift - Jul 25, 2005 7:14:24 am PDT #2614 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
That help?
Not really, because people taste really, really good.
Fred Pete - Jul 25, 2005 7:14:36 am PDT #2615 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
bon bon, I was in law school when it was the up-and-coming "conservative" group. But only for certain "conservatives," at least at UNC. I knew at least one person who was decidedly unwelcome because his conservatism had a strong libertarian streak.
Now, this is just one law school 20 years ago, so take FWIW.
bon bon - Jul 25, 2005 7:15:35 am PDT #2616 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Yeah, given that my friends in the society are libertarian, I don't think it's necessarily that parochial anymore.
I think their ideas are fairly lunatic.
Which?
Volans - Jul 25, 2005 7:19:37 am PDT #2617 of 10002
move out and draw fire
The Federalist Society took their name from The Federalist Papers, and the thing about them is that they believe they know founder's intent. You get the idea that because slavery's in the Constitution, they think it should never have been outlawed. They are conservatives' conservatives, opposed to anything that smacks of change.
I don't like secret societies, and The Federalist Society comes pretty damn close. I don't mind organizations that get together to discuss topics, but the FS appears to exist to crush opposition. And it's become an odd-boys' network. Membership in it seems to be de rigeur for an appointment.
Additionally, they are the folks who gave rise to the term "liberal orthodoxy."
Yes, at law school the conservative students migrated to the FS, but the moderate ones then migrated away.
The guy I know that knows Roberts, incidentally, said "No, we didn't overlap while working for Starr, but we knew each other from The Federalist Society." So at least one conservative thinks Roberts was a member. (Of course, he won't necessary stick to that story for public consumption.)
Tom Scola - Jul 25, 2005 7:23:08 am PDT #2618 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
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