fromThe American Conservative
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In the early 1980s, the Federalist Society was established to intellectually counter the judicial activism agenda that had captured America's legal profession. To many conservatives it seemed a hopeless endeavor, but FedSoc founders were determined to win back the country's court system, law schools, and legal associations that had largely been abandoned to the liberal-left and radical legal activists. With time, they made great progress.