[Darkwolf377]

a team of conservative grass-roots organizers, public relations specialists and legal strategists met to prepare a battle plan to ensure any vacancies were filled by like-minded jurists.

I saw the source for the headline and thought "Ahh, another Vast Rrightwing Conspiracy" story.

Only took till the first paragraph to confirm that suspicion.

[Past Your Eyes]

A win is a win.

[billhilly]

A group of winners, not whiners.

[Ben Ficklin]

"Ah, another Vast Right Wing Conspiracy story."

Leahy was the dem who was known for his staunch opposition to Federalist Society members serving in the Judiciary. After Hillary's election, she became the most vocal and has publicly stated that the Federalist Society is the cornerstone of the VRWC conspiracy, that they are intending on "rolling back the New Deal".

Briefly, the dems base this conspiracy on those feddies working for Reagan influencing the Reagan Whitehouse when the investor protection languge that would become NAFTA Chap 11 was composed. After these investor protections have spread thru-out the western hemisphere via all the FTAs, there will exist duel set of conflicting regulatory laws. Once that happens, the dems say, a Supreme Ct dominated by the Federalist Society would find a case in which they would rule that 90% of the regulatory law that the dems created in the 20th century to be un-constitutional.

This is why the dems have been most opposed to Bush's nominees that were/are members of the federalist society or those that the dems perceive to be stealth feddies such as John Roberts, Janice Brown, and also AG Alberto Gonzales.

The problem for the dems is that if they try to use the this conspiracy in opposition to Alito or any other feddie, they look like kooks.

[Sam Cree]

To the NYT, the Constitutional Convention in 1784 was a vast Right Wing Conspiracy.