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Six Justices, One Organization, Billionaire Funding Six of the nine current Supreme Court justices are current or former members of the Federalist Society: John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. This isn’t coincidence. It’s the culmination of a decades-long, billionaire-funded project to capture the federal judiciary and implement a conservative legal agenda that couldn’t win at the ballot box. ...

The Federalist Society Assembly Line The Court’s current composition isn’t an accident—it’s the culmination of a 40-year project by the Federalist Society and its allies to capture America’s courts. Since the 1980s, conservative legal activists led by figures like Leonard Leo have built an assembly line for right-wing judges. They identify promising law students, groom them through internships and clerkships, fund their careers, and ultimately deliver them to the Court. Five of the six conservative justices are Federalist Society members, and the sixth, Clarence Thomas, is closely aligned with their ideology. ...