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Re:Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of M... by PuppyTailWags on Thursday October 06, 2022 @11:22PM (#33117070)
No, there doesn't exist anything comparable to the infrastructure of the conservative judicial system. Wealthy progressive individuals hiding behind multiple corporations were not writing affidavits to roe v wade pretending to be multiple people. That strategy didn't exist until much later. Similarly, the decades-long funding of legal scholarship to prevent progressive legislation has no progressive comparison of equal maturity. There is no comparison to the size and influence of the Federalist Society in the funding of the careers of politically-motivated law students into politically-biased judges.
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Re:Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of M... by throwawayacc2 on Friday October 07, 2022 @02:51AM (#33118190)
The progressive equivalent is the long march through the institutions. There absolutely was an organised “progressive” drive to increase their ideological base. And yes. The same long march is now happening from the other side. Progress is not always in the direction you like.

* Long march through the institutions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_march_through_the_insti...

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Re:Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of M... by PuppyTailWags on Friday October 07, 2022 @09:45AM (#33121187)
Long march through the institutions is a thing made up by a German student activist and has no known organizational heft beyond this. The article itself cannot name a single organization or achievement under this strategy. The Federalist Society is well-documented, in was founded in and organizes within the country we're talking about, hosts multiple conventions with close ties to conservative Supreme Court members, who have known to attend and give speeches advocating for extreme political interpretation, and who has been repeatedly reported to be the de facto gatekeeper for opportunities to judicial and legal positions under Republican government.
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