For decades, the conservative legal movement united behind shared goals of filling the federal bench with like minded judges and espousing common principles grounded in an originalist reading of the Constitution.
Now, with a Democratic president, it doesn’t have judges to agree on, and how to define constitutional principles came under question when prominent legal conservatives sought to help former President Donald Trump overturn voting outcomes and disrupt the Electoral College ratification in Congress.
Already, the Federalist Society, the legal networking group at the center of the movement, is facing pressure from within to distance itself from John Eastman, a ...