Federalist Society
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The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.
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In the largest known political advocacy donation in U.S. history, industrialist Barre Seid funded a new group run by Federalist Society co-chair Leonard Leo, who guided Trump’s Supreme Court picks and helped end federal abortion rights.
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It’s a right-wing dream decades in the making.