Chuck Darwin<p>Enter <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leonard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Leonard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Leo</span></a>. <br>In the early years of the Trump administration, he and the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Federalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Federalist</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Society</span></a> had remarkable influence within the new government. The Federalist Society had brought the legal doctrines of <a href="https://c.im/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>originalism</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/textualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>textualism</span></a> — close readings of laws and the Constitution to adhere to the intent and words of the authors — into the mainstream. </p><p>Leo had taken a leave of absence from the group to advise President Trump on judicial appointments, helping shepherd the appointments of Neil <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gorsuch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gorsuch</span></a>, Brett <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kavanaugh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kavanaugh</span></a>, and Amy Coney <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barrett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Barrett</span></a> to the Supreme Court and helping to fill more than 200 other positions in federal district and appellate courts. </p><p>By the time Trump left office, he had put on the bench 28% of all federal judges in America.</p><p>In the town hall video, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Baehr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Baehr</span></a> explained how he modeled <a href="https://c.im/tags/Teneo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Teneo</span></a> on the Federalist Society. </p><p>Leo’s “secret sauce,” he said, was to identify an “inner core” group of people within the Federalist Society’s 60,000 members. </p><p>Leo was “identifying them and recruiting them for either specific roles to serve as <a href="https://c.im/tags/judges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judges</span></a> or to spin up and launch critical <a href="https://c.im/tags/projects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>projects</span></a> often which you would have no idea about.”</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/FedSoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FedSoc</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/teneonetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teneonetwork</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/darkmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>darkmoney</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/leonard-leo-teneo-videos-documents" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/leonard</span><span class="invisible">-leo-teneo-videos-documents</span></a></p>