Federalist Society leaders have emerged as the top attorneys for George Bush in both the Florida Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the United States. With Federalist Society DC Chapter President Ted Olson as lead attorney before the Supreme Court, they are determined to win not just the Presidency, but to begin the process of institutionalizing a comprehensive agenda challenging every aspect of a democratic judicial system.* Targeting the courts, the law schools, and the American Bar Association, the Federalist Society has emerged as an increasingly powerful coalition of conservative and libertarian legal activists developing broad-based challenges to fundamental principles of constitutional law. Other Federalist Society leaders include Robert Bork, C. Boyden Gray, Edwin Meese, Scaife Foundation Trustee, T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., former Christian Coalition President Donald Paul Hodel, and the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Orrin Hatch. With 15 practice groups spanning every area of the legal system from civil rights and religious liberties to corporations law and telecommunications, with a presence in 140 law schools across the nation, and backed by millions of dollars from leading right-wing and libertarian foundations, the Federalist Society is quietly and successfully shaping the emerging jurisprudence. The ongoing debate concerning the presidential election has raised many important questions about the future direction of the American legal system. This compelling new report from IDS provides striking new information about the infrastructure underlying the right wing assault on the democratic foundations of our legal system. * For information on other Bush lawyers, see the Institute for Democracy Studies’ briefing paper, "The Assault on Diversity." To order IDS resources on the Federalist Society, please call 212 423-9237 or fax the order form to 212 423-9352. In addition, the following can be viewed on-line by going to Publications: "The Federalist Society and the Challenge to a Democratic Jurisprudence" (Introduction) "Slouching Towards Extremism: The Federalist Society and the Transformation of American Jurisprudence."