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On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump publicly split with the Federalist Society, the powerful conservative lawyers group that he relied on to select judges in his first term. Thanks in no small part to Trump, a majority of the Supreme Court justices are associated with the Federalist Society, as are dozens or even hundreds of other federal judges.
But now, Trump apparently regrets his earlier partnership with the Society.
I am so disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations, Trump posted on Truth Social. He blames his decision to ally with the Society on the fact that he was new to Washington when he first became president, and it was suggested that I use The Federalist Society as a recommending source on Judges. He also names Leonard Leo, the co-chair of the Societys board, a sleazebag who probably hates America, and obviously has his own separate ambitions.
Its a bold move by Trump, because the Federalist Society derives much of its power from the fact that so many of its members have lifetime appointments to the federal bench. Promising conservative lawyers want to join and pay dues to the Society because it was seen as a pipeline to power. And the fact that its members have been able to shape policy on everything from abortion to race to student loans made it the premier right-wing legal group.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-just-threw-one-most-185500414.html
When your enemy is self-destructing do not interrupt him.

SheltieLover
(68,852 posts)

11 Bravo
(24,125 posts)Donnie Dainty Digit's loyalty extends no farther than the tips of the fingers on his teeny little hands.
50 Shades Of Blue
(11,150 posts)EndlessWire
(7,819 posts)I hope that they get so pissed off at rump that they plot to remove him. Let him call them names, and rant on. I'd rather deal with Vance. Those rich people in the shadows can force rump out.
What a day. Not sure what purpose it serves to announce all this hatred and the fact that he has new enemies. What power does any of his lowlife followers have against The Federalist Society? Is he going to try to force Leonard Leo out of his position there? Is that the move? Is he really telling TFS what he wants?
50 Shades Of Blue
(11,150 posts)I just can't see Vance wielding the power that Trump does. He's as evil and megalomaniac as Trump, but he doesn't have Trump's rabid following, and those people mean business. I could see Trumpers resenting the hell out of Vance if he took over, so Trump would end up still wielding power behind the scenes. Seems to me these three monsters are like that scorpions inn a bottle metaphor, lol. At this point do I think Leo has more to fear from Trump than vice versa, because Trump can sic the DOJ on the FS. And Vance would do the same thing. But either way I hate them all so fucking much!
MineralMan
(149,158 posts)That's not a nice thing to call him, I think. I mean, I don't disagree, but I'd think the right-wingers who love those Federalist guys might be disappointed with Trump over that. Who knows?
Scrivener7
(55,845 posts)
Let him be😂
Just Jerome
(205 posts)from didie don, especially regarding Leonard Leo.
House of Roberts
(6,042 posts)have ruled against him. He obviously wants judges that are loyal only to him and not conservative principles.
FakeNoose
(37,525 posts)But that doesn't mean they're also Nazis (fascists). Only Chump-humping MAGAs make that assumption.
Chump is just starting to figure this out.
hatrack
(62,593 posts).
orangecrush
(24,821 posts)yellowdogintexas
(23,264 posts)Buddyzbuddy
(937 posts)And rat face Miller may have told people that you're easily manipulated and he's the actual President.
But, those are just rumours.
Marcuse
(8,453 posts)Joinfortmill
(18,140 posts)But, not surprising, Trump eventually dumps on everyone.
lame54
(37,990 posts)All expendable
Martin Eden
(14,394 posts)This new organization will recruit judicial candidates who can be counted on for fealty not to the US Constitution, but to Dear Leader.
It will be called The Fascist Society.
mdbl
(6,577 posts)who he assume will protect his criminality. As usual, he makes me wanna
LetMyPeopleVote
(164,078 posts)The Federalist Society has long been seen as one of the most successful projects of the conservative movement. Team Trump no longer seems to care.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-house-decided-even-conservative-federalist-society-isnt-good-eno-rcna210026
And so, as Politico reported, the president has opened up a new line of attack.
President Donald Trump leveled unusually pointed criticism of a prominent conservative legal activist and organization Thursday as he railed against a ruling that struck down his sweeping tariffs. The president, in a post on his social media platform, slammed Leonard Leo, the former chair of the Federalist Society, calling him a sleazebag who probably hates America.
As part of an odd and meandering online rant, the Republican wrote, 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!
For those unfamiliar with the Federalist Society, it is a conservative organization that has long been seen as one of the most successful projects of the conservative movement. Indeed, throughout Trumps first term, the group was a key part of a brutally efficient assembly-line process: The Federalist Society would vet and recommend far-right ideologues for the federal bench; the White House would use the organizations lists for judicial nominations; Senate Republicans would rubber-stamp the presidents choices; and Americans would watch the judiciary lurch to the right to a degree unseen in generations......
In fact, a year before Election Day 2024, The New York Times reported that Team Trump had begun looking at Federalist Society members as squishes. The article quoted Russell Vought, 15 months before hed begin his latest tenure as the director of the White Houses Office of Management and Budget, saying, The Federalist Society doesnt know what time it is.
That was in late 2023. Now, midway through 2025, as several Trump-appointed federal judges rule in ways the president does not like, he wont blame himself, and hes won't blame Senate Republicans for confirming his picks but he can blame the Federalist Society for recommending jurists who sometimes see themselves as neutral arbiters of a separate and coequal branch of government.
Thats precisely why Stephen Miller, a White House deputy chief of staff, appeared on CNN the morning after Trumps online rant and accused the Federalist Society of creating a broken system. He added, Were not going to be using the Federalist Society to make judicial nominations at all going forward.
As for what Team Trump might replace it with, watch this space
The Federalist Society judges are ultraconservative assholes but they follow the law. trump wants idiots who will worship him and not the law
Montauk6
(9,124 posts)
no_hypocrisy
(51,743 posts)(Stormtroopers). Hitler didn't want a coalition of groups. He wanted to be in charge of everything, period.
JHB
(37,705 posts)Nigrum Cattus
(568 posts)Also, when your enemy is self-destructing - PILE ON !!!!!
PatSeg
(50,272 posts)No one can make enemies quite like Trump does.
Hekate
(97,876 posts)
Iamscrewed
(349 posts)Burn all your bridges dumas.
spanone
(139,160 posts)That's what dictators demand.
GoCubsGo
(33,877 posts)Don't ask me which is which. It's hard to tell. Either way, I'm rooting for mutual destruction, once again.
TommyT139
(1,448 posts)As evil as the Fed Soc is, at least they are American.
Trump still needs the money, both to feed his greed, and to use to keep the rethugs in line. He has found a new source -- overseas dark money, harder to trace, in the form of crypto.
Not that I understand how they turn crypto into real money. I assume that's a key motivator of why Trump wants to link the US money system to crypto: he wants to use our financial infrastructure to launder money for him.
SleeplessinSoCal
(10,090 posts)even when he chickens out, we'll see tge big guns drive him out.
Dem4life1970
(878 posts)Loyalty to Trump is a one way street. In his tiny, mushroom sized and shaped, lizard brain, he thinks "Trump appointed judge" means someone who will rule exactly like he wants and who will probably take his "perfect phone calls" so that he can tell them how to rule (who wants to bet he has been calling judges and some are refusing to talk to him before they rule?). As has already been said, instead he is getting right leaning judges who follow the law and don't reflexively do what the guy who appointed them wants them to do.
As much as I still disagree with the 9-0 decision against Colorado last year allowing Trump on the ballot, all of the SCOTUS justices showed judicial independence (and oops-destroyed our Democracy in the process, but hey).
czarjak
(12,885 posts)It's always about who's priorities reign supreme?
randr
(12,553 posts)Just like he denied knowledge of the 2025 manifesto. The "originalists" are about to come under introspection.
peggysue2
(11,895 posts)There's no halfway with Trump. It's his way or the highway because domination is what drives the lunatic.
I have no love for the Federalist Society. Their brand of conservatism has turned into paleoconservatism--rigid, narrow, white Christian nationalism, economic protectionism among others.
What Trump and Miller hate is that the selection of Federalist judges include people who actually believe in the rule of law. A number of whom have refused (thus far) to rubber stamp Agent Orange and his Flying Monkey Brigade's rush to turn the country into a Trump enterprise.
The Federalists have a lot of money and clout. I don't think they're going to take kindly to the Trumpster trashing them or calling out the likes of Leonard Leo.
But please, by all means proceed! Intra-party fights will slow, maybe even temporarily disrupt this nightmare.
Clouds Passing
(4,984 posts)Ol Janx Spirit
(254 posts)...that he was a useful idiot--with the emphasis on idiot.
And really, he has served their agenda very well. I don't think they will ever abandon him. They may even be welcoming this good cop/bad cop cosplay theatre. They have a plan; all he cares about is a plane.
They also know: TACO. I doubt they take any of the bluster seriously.
But I bet popcorn futures are up today!
Martin68
(25,864 posts)idiotic whim.