Nominee is considered a controversial figure in the Trump administration’s aggressive shake-up of the Justice Department.

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“The Federalist Society is just interwoven into the conservative legal establishment,” said Russell Wheeler, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who studies the judiciary.

George Conway talks about why Federalist Society-style conservatives supported the judges appointed during President Trump's first term on The Bulwark's "George Conway Explains It All" podcast ...

President Trump’s split with the Federalist Society may prove to be one of the most consequential legal developments of his second term, Vox senior correspondent Ian Millhiser writes.

Many judges have ruled against the Trump administration so far, and the president appeared to be fed up after a recent social media post criticizing Federalist Society Chairman Leonard Leo.

OPINION Trump should be thanking Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society, not waging war Trump is lashing out at those who helped him pick judges in his first term.

If it were not for the Federalist Society, Donald Trump would have no presidency. In fact, were it not for the Federalist Society, Trump might not even be a free man.

The 47th president’s criticism of the Federalist Society, an influential conservative legal group, was especially shocking given that in his first term he appointed to the bench three justices whom ...

President Trump and his allies are waging war with the Federalist Society as he sees parts of his second-term agenda blocked by some of his own judicial appointees.

The fight might between the president and the conservative old guard might just be the biggest legal development of Trump’s second term.

Trump added: "I am so disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations. This is something that cannot be forgotten!" ...