Not content with stifling dissent at overwhelmingly leftist law schools, the progressive legal establishment is now threatening to trample conservative judges’ freedom of association. Their proposal should be shot down, and its remains should be buried.
The proposal comes from the Committee on Codes of Conduct of the Judicial Conference of the United States. It would allow judges and their clerks to be members of the notably liberal American Bar Association, but not members of the conservative Federalist Society or the left-wing American Constitution Society. As the Federalist Society has been longer-established, and is seen as far more influential than the ACS, so most observers see this proposal as aimed squarely at the Federalist Society.
