“Robert Barnes blames the Federalist Society. Says they monopolized all legal thought, opinion and vetting among so-called conservatives (and thus have had a huge influence over most GOP judicial nominations), but have in fact become just another self-serving, DC Beltway, deep-state RINO organization”
I agree. The Federalist Society has been a huge disappointment. There has to be other alternatives.
“The Federalist Society has been a huge disappointment. There has to be other alternatives.”
The problem is much more fundamental. With the exception of a small handful of law schools, none “elite,” every law student becomes indoctrinated in legal relativism and the primacy of “case law” rather than legislation of the Constitution. Many/most decisions are expressly contrary to the plain and simple meaning of the Constitution. I was once at a dinner party which included a retired state supreme court justice, and he was quite frank about his decisions being almost never based on the wording of the State Constitution but rather case law and the political needs of the leftist agenda. I saw this as a pre-law undergraduate in the early 70s before I got sense and switched to something useful, when the leftist professors could twist themselves into pretzels to justify their so-called reasoning.
If you are choosing your SCOTUS candidates from that swamp, any successes are a surprise.