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   Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 05:46:34 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

   The Federalist Society Won Its 40-Year War on Affirmative Action
   Opinions killing affirmative action written by 6 justices tied to Federalist Society
   https://truthout.org/articles/the-federalist-society-just-won-its-40-year-war-on-affirmative-action/

   https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110583318041053574
   Leonard Leo’s SCOTUS-FedSoc Sponsor Family Program
   https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/leonard-leos-scotus-fedsoc-sponsor-family-program

   https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110554851724389655
   https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110583336756977728

   https://persagen.com >> search:
   "leonard leo" AND "federalist society" AND "supreme court"

   #SCOTUS #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #FarRight #ChristianRight #neoconservatism

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     It is interesting of you to say so. To be fair, I have only ever read less than a handful of their content directly.

     However, as a political commentator, I have been coming across them every other week. Always with a right-wing content. They have succeeded in hijacking 3 of the four federal institutions of government: the presidency, the #SupremeCourt, and most recently, the House of Representatives.

     Let me therefore give you two more examples:
     1) The...

     @persagen

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     ...renowned historian #HeatherCoxRichardson, wrote about the #FederalistSociety:

     "Today’s #SupremeCourt, packed as it has been 👉by right-wing money behind the Federalist Society and that society’s leader, Leonard Leo,👈 is taking upon itself power over the federal government and the state governments to recreate the world that existed before the #NewDeal."

     https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-30-2023

     They are not even conservatives in the true sense of the meaning, they are...

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     It’s just so funny to hear people talking about the right-wing conspiracy from the Federalist Society when I’ve spent years listening to their left-wing content.

     The organization gives voice to so many speakers that are adamantly critical of the right wing. That’s in fact why I listen to them, because they call out the right-wing for being really off the rails.

     So it comes across as gaslighting to someone like me.

     Or more importantly, it comes across as taking advantage of people’s lack of familiarity to sell a sensationalized narrative while avoiding what’s really going on in the world.

     @persagen

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     https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/110639014088920163

     https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/16/two-anonymous-425-million-donations-gives-dark-money-conservative-group-a-massive-haul-00067493

     https://mas.to/@lindyli/109730222239500860

     https://toad.social/@jimstewartson/109468404269494374

     https://mastodon.sdf.org/@MattFerrel/110566064644139812

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     All of these groups promoting conspiracy theories about the Federalist Society, as opposed to simply going through the reasoning in the opinions themselves, are really misleading the public, coming across as if they’ve never actually listened to any FedSoc content.

     In reality, the Federalist Society is one of the most evenhanded outfits I know of, presenting both sides of debates, including pro-affirmative action speakers.

     Seriously, go pull up their content and give their debates a listen. They are nothing like the evil right-wing monster so many are trying to frame them as.

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 06:16:19 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Leonard Leo’s decades-long campaign to gut Planned Parenthood
     https://www.salon.com/2024/08/17/inside-conservative-activist-leonard-leos-long-campaign-to-gut-planned-parenthood_partner

     * fed. lawsuit (TX) v. Planned Parenthood
     * web tied to conservative activist/Federalist Society's Leonard Leo
     * decades-long effort steered U.S. courts to overturn Roe v. Wade

     https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110682477912375137
     https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-30-2023

     #ReproductiveRights #WomensRights #SCOTUS #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #FarRight #ChristianRight #conservatism #abortion #PlannedParenthood #fascism #billionaires #EnablingFascism #GOP

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     ...#reactionaries.

     2) They put the least left-wing presidential candidate of the last decades, #TFG, into the #WhiteHouse, including even the disastrous #RonaldReagan:

     #According to #PoliticoMagazine, "#Trump is #president for a long list of reasons, of course, but near the 👉top of that list is the imprimatur the #FederalistSociety granted him. He almost certainly couldn't have gotten what he wanted without the Federalists. 👈And...
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society#Donald_Trump_administration

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     ...they almost certainly couldn't have gotten what they wanted without him."

     (Kruse, Michael (September 2018). "The Weekend at Yale That Changed American Politics". Politico. Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2019.)

     Irony of fate: #Politico is now owned by the notorious right-wing owner of Germany's biggest newspaper (aka tabloid) #BILD. (1)

     So, in conclusion, while I do not doubt that you fid see this left-wing content...

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     ...for which they provided a platform, that was part of their right-wing communications strategy: #bothsidesism.

     They introduced obscure right-wing talking points like the (now debunked even by the #MAGA #SCOTUS) #IndependentStateLegislatureTheory (#ISLT) into the political discourse by (probably) having reputable progressive scholars to appear neutral.
     Other than that, they probably were false-flag operations. This is quite likely,...

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     https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/the-inside-story-of-axel-springers-cutthroat-deal-to-buy-politico

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     ...as notorious General #MichaelFlyn, a known #PyOps specialist, is also in league with them:

     https://fedsoc.org/events/clash-of-the-titans-general-michael-flynn-judge-emmett-sullivan-does-the-doj-have-unfettered-discretion-to-dismiss-the-flynn-prosecution.

     Please note: "As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker."

     And then look at the "neutral" moderator:

     "Clark Neily, Vice President for Criminal Justice, 👉#CatoInstitute👈, one of the most notorious right-wing...