Democrats must be concerned about "The Federalist Society"

[Civic Justice]

Democrats must be concerned about the influences of "The Federalist Society"

During last year’s campaign, Donald Trump offered an unprecedented guarantee regarding any potential Supreme Court nomination. The Republican nominee promised that, if he were elected president, his judicial nominees would “all [be] picked by the Federalist Society.”
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The role of the Federalist Society is the natural culmination of a decades long evolution of judicial selection by Republican presidents, one that has made ideological credentials more central to the nomination process.
That evolution began with the Ronald Reagan presidency.

The Federalist Society was founded in 1982 in order to advance conservative ideas in the legal academy and ultimately in the legal system as a whole.

We as Democratic People should be "very concerned" and extremely vigilant, as it is a danger to Democratic Ideals, when we Federal Judges are chosen and seated based on "Republican Conservative Ideals". The mentality in how they interpet law, and pass rulings is a great danger to the liberal minded views of Democrats.

Imagine the damage and dangers to our liberties as American Citizens that is at stake IF, the Federal Courts are filled with Conservative Judges, and then we get a Supreme Court that is Top Heavy with Conservative Judges.

We can't be single minded to void out awareness that the Republican Conservative Agenda, is in attack mode, in every arena, from our local governance, to our high courts and all that exist in-between. They've enlisted the Right Wing Conservative minded Evangelicals, to influence the people through their faith, while they seek via Political and Judicial means, to overtake the liberty and freedoms and equality within Democracy, that we as Democrats work to preserve.

We can't be passive minded, nor can we have short attention spans, and we certainly cannot indulge any degree of selective amnesia. We must not only read, but we must use voice, be it within social media, blog scripts and person to person and other means of communication, as to what we are confronted with. Sadly, "one liners" and "slap stick", won't serve us well. We need to remember, this is a long game played by Republicans, in the 1970's when Civics was diminished as a focal point in education, that tells us that we have 2 generations and working our 3rd who have grown up without good Civics Education, (for the sake of voting perspective, consider a generation as being cycles of 18 yrs olds) therefore, these nature of things does not come to mind, and certainly is not supported by voice. When we remain silent, refuse to write our thoughts and share, we hurt ourselves and those whom we can help to learn and understand the "attacks" that are upon and against us.

It is important for all Democrats to invest in thinking, researching, writing, talking and using all forms of communication to help bring information, to a society that has been structurally influenced by Conservative policy, not to be informed.
We have to stick with media, but also press media not to get hung up in "drama spins" and chasing only advertising dollars", but to bring 'information and enough detail within that information for people to be and become informed, as well as to inspire people to seek even more clarity via research to truly understand the information.

Social media is a great too, but we must learn better how to use it and what to make the best of our usage of its technological capabilities to "communicate" substantiate engagements with each other. We are and we should be beyond the 'novelty phase of just telling people where we going, and posting picture of food, and vanity things", we have to use it for communication about the things that truly impact not just our lives, but the lives of those yet to come.
If people remember, "MySpace" faded away when it went into absurdity, and now with "Facebook", we've come to see the irresponsibility they engaged during our Presidential Election, to the absurdity some have resorted to use it for, as well as the dangers that it has posed within even communities,as well as using its members to increase its advertising fees.

We must come to terms in how to make the better usage of this technology, and concern ourselves with things happening in the political realm, be it local, regional and national... as well as be far more focused to pay attention to ruling that is daily being made within our judicial system. Such thing can and will change our lives... and if we are unaware and unconcern, that change may well not be for the betterment of the Democracy we know and love and seek to improve as Democrats.

Yes, this involve our daily lives, our work, our community, our schools, and every aspect of life, and certainly it will be damaging to our consumerism. We will be impacted Domestically as well as Internationally. We can take note to see the realism of this with the assault on Mexican people in America, the Travel Bans based on Religion, the Tariff on Steel and Aluminum, and the ways we have seen our Allies treated and our diplomacy desecrated. We've seen our diplomats disrespected and those with right wing conservative ideology being supplanted in our system of international diplomats.

Yes, these are "many" factors... but if we fail to consider and understand that the Conservative Right Wing Republican System is with aim to leave no stone Un-turned in their attempt to USURP our American System of Democracy, and attack our Democratic Party which places the values of the Declaration of Independence and The U.S. Constitution as foundational to the liberty, freedoms and justice with equality for All. Our Democracy is under attack!!!!

We can no longer fail to see the long game being played out by Conservative Republican and their Confederate Idealistic Agenda.

Democrats must be concerned about the influences of "The Federalist Society" and all the acts being engaged by the Conservative Right Wing Republican System and its Confederacy Ideals.

[Proud liberal 80]

1. Yep

And this is the main reason people who voted Stein or didn’t vote because they didn’t like Hillary should have voted for her. Damn dummies.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. I can guarantee you that EVERY Democrat in DC is well aware of the Federalist Society, and...

I have been seeing regular discussions about them for years.

Openly attacking them, is, however, fraught with danger. There is nothing outwardly un-American about their views, as they are conservative, but not insanely so, and many of their arguments are reasonable-- worthy of debate, but not necessarily of attack.

Two things to remember-- Trump made this promise, and he has yet to keep a promise; and if we take the Senate back, all bets are off.

And, a conservative Court is a problem, but not the end of the world. A conservative Court declared much of the New Deal unconstitutional, but we managed to survive that.

History moves in waves and cycles-- we are in the midst of such a wave.

[Civic Justice]

3. yes...

The importance I'm speaking of, is not just about the Congressional Democrats being aware, but the citizen population as a whole being aware.

I would not move to say, "everything they do is wrong", my concerns is the "ideals that they influence along more Conservative ideology, has not and continues not to be the best for liberal minded Democrats; therefore we must be not only aware but we need to understand better what is at work. Most "Citizens" have no Idea the Federalist Society even exist.

They can, if they get the saturation, overturn Roe vs Wade, and we've continually seen the need to have more Democratically minded judges have to step up to protect us, from the Republican Gerrymandering.

We are a nations of laws, and we must be of much care in how that law is interpreted and how that interpretation impacts us as an American society.

An Informed and Aware Society, is an element that should be closely regard as a valuable National Security element for us, not only as Citizens, but General Domestic Manners in how we live. It has International implication as well, especially for the many nations that look to us, for examples of how a Democracy moves to become a better Democracy, with equality for All.

We certainly can't overlook the Republican's attempt to over rule and void out the Johnson Amendment, to blur the lines between Church and State, as well as to make way to use religious as Super Powerful PAC's. Nor can we overlook the aim and attempt to select as reference for Judges, based as one that has made ideological credentials more central to the nomination process.

These things of Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, and Equality for All in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness... can be impacted if we are not very careful and remain aware of what is taking place and who is being selected to fill seat and place.