In this exclusive MASTER PLAN bonus episode, we speak to former Department of Justice staffer and dark-money researcher Lisa Graves about how the Federalist Society successfully launched an ideological takeover of the federal courts in the early 2000s.
Graves details how the conservative special interest group gained massive influence over the Supreme Court nomination process by employing its surrogates throughout the executive branch and legitimizing an “originalist” approach to the Constitution.
From the pages of the Powell Memo to the highest court in the land, Graves recounts how the Federalist Society recruited and trained its own network of careerist judges — and managed to land them on the Supreme Court.
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