Even as Donald Trump has fumed at the conservative legal group, it remains the most influential player in Republican judicial ...

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. By John Yoo Updated June 6, 2025, 11:34 a.m.

The Supreme Court has just finished a term that should please conservatives, yet President Donald Trump is really not happy ...

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 ...

KEY TAKEAWAYS Trump criticized the Federalist Society and its chairman, Leonard Leo, on Truth Social. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the DOJ will not give ABA special treatment.

Leonard Leo has long been a key figure in the Federalist Society and was very much a part of the first Trump administration, working closely with the administration to put forward judges.

No wonder then that Trump thinks Leonard Leo, formerly a guiding light at the Federalist Society, the premier conservative legal organization, is a “sleazebag” and “bad person.” ...

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.

Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society’s board of directors co-chair currently in Trump’s crosshairs, explained that Gilbert’s task will be to navigate “the generational change the society is ...

And Trump is right that Leo, and by extension, the Federalist Society and its judges, have “separate ambitions” that do not always align with Trump or the MAGA movement.

The Federalist Society is a notorious right-wing legal group that has established a "pipeline" for conservative lawyers to the federal bench. Trump relied extensively on advice from the group, and ...