![]() ![]() In 1982, a group of conservative students and professors gathered at Yale Law School giddy with the opportunity offered by Ronald Reagan’s presidency. In that pursuit, an institution named the Federalist Society became their main vehicle. In order to implement their anti-democratic policy agenda and political philosophy, they needed the influence and power of a court system impervious to the will of voters. They didn’t have public opinion on their side - certainly not on legal abortion, nor on other elements of their plan to maintain their privilege and power. In the early Reagan years, religious right movement leaders Paul Weyrich and Jerry Falwell knew that they could not solely rely on fickle politicians to implement their plan on a national scale. ![]()
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