NYT:

During President Trump’s first term, he effectively outsourced the task of picking judges to lawyers closely associated with the Federalist Society, a 43-year-old conservative legal group, and Leonard Leo, then its executive vice president.

But in his second term, after some of those judges failed to rule in his favor in cases testing the legality of his policy moves, Mr. Trump has lashed out against the organization. In a lengthy social media post in May, he called Mr. Leo a “sleazebag” who “openly brags how he controls Judges.” The Federalist Society, he said, had given him “bad advice.”

Considering the crowd that assembled earlier this month in Washington for the Federalist Society’s annual lawyers’ convention — including many close allies of Mr. Trump — it was clear that the or

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