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The Federalist Society Isn’t Quite Sure About Democracy Anymore
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Mar 17, 2023 11:14am |
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| Category | Perspective |
| Author | Ian Ward |
| News Date | Friday, March 17, 2023 09:30:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It was the start of the second day of the Federalist Society’s National Student Symposium — an annual gathering of conservative and libertarian law students hosted by the conservative legal behemoth — and as I sidled up to one group of attendees, I got the sense that they were caught off guard to find a reporter in their midst.
The first major clue about those preoccupations came from the symposium’s theme, which the organizers had designated as “Law and Democracy.” As the programming unfolded over the next day and a half, it became alarmingly clear that, even among the buttoned-up young members of the Federalist Society — an organization not known for its political transgressiveness — the relationship between those two principles is far from settled. From radical new theories about election law to outlandish-seeming calls for a “national divorce” the symposium-goers were grappling with ideas that raised fundamental questions about American democracy — what it means, what it entails, and what, if anything, the conservative legal movement has to say about its apparent decline. |
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