Takeover: How a Conservative Student Club Captured the Supreme Court
Noah Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and director of its Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law. He specializes in constitutional studies and was one of the four legal scholars called upon to testify at the impeachment hearings on President Trump. He is a contributing writer for Bloomberg Opinion and the author of nine books, including his latest, The Arab Winter. In 2003, Noah served as senior constitutional adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and subsequently advised members of the Iraqi Governing Council on the drafting of an interim constitution.
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With the addition of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, six of the nine sitting Supreme Court Justices are current or former members of a conservative legal organization called the Federalist Society. In Noah Feldman’s audiobook, TAKEOVER: How a Conservative Student Club Captured the Supreme Court, Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman and Lidia Jean Kott explore the rise of the most influential legal organization in U.S. history.
Beginning in the early 1980s, when it was not exactly ‘cool’ to be a conservative law student, a small group of students started a club, named in honor of The Federalist Papers, where they could safely discuss their right-of-center views. They asked Antonin Scalia, then a professor at University of Chicago, to be their advisor and got to work advocating for an originalist interpretation of the Constitution. Over the past 40 years, members of the organization have included Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Ted Cruz, Orrin Hatch, and Josh Hawley, among many other prominent politicians, public servants, and elected officials.
The story of how a group of Republican law students started a club that grew to become the most influential legal organization in US history.
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