https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/01/02/feature/conquerors-of-the-courts/


Edit to summarize the roots for anybody without a sub/the time: Basically, it started as a small rebellion against increasingly liberal/progressive legal writing at University of Chicago, then Harvard and Yale in the early '80s and just happened to gain a shitload of momentum in the grass roots of the Reagan era and pretty quickly became the foundation of a fundamentalist conservative's interpretation of what the legal system was supposed to represent and more importantly could be capable of.

These days, pretty much any judge at any level of the courts with an (R) next to their name appointed since the mid-late '90s has been a Federalist Society member.


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