By Ann Southworth
Drawing on in-depth interviews with greater than seventy attorneys who characterize conservative and libertarian nonprofit firms, Ann Southworth explores their values and identities and strains the consequences in their shared curiosity in selling political recommendations that supply legal professionals major roles. She is going directly to remove darkness from the functionality of mediator organizations—such because the historical past starting place and the Federalist Society for legislations and Public Policy—that have succeeded in selling cooperation between diverse factions of conservative legal professionals. Such cooperation, she unearths, has aided efforts to force legislations and the felony occupation politically rightward and to provide attorneys higher prominence within the conservative flow. Southworth concludes, although, that tensions among the conservative legislation movement’s elite and populist components may possibly eventually result in its undoing.
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