Some various examples of actions and how they have panned out.
In the 1970s a group of lawyers and law students were growing fed up with the more leftward bent of the courts. The Burger Court had decided on Roe v. Wade and Lemon v. Kurtzman (among other things) and they wanted to shift things.
So in 1982 they founded the Federalist Society.
Which today is one of the single most powerful entities in the US and hand-picks judges for Republican presidents.
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