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Fox’s Chris Wallace challenges Graham over past comments on ignoring subpoenas

Source: Fox’s Chris Wallace challenges Graham over past comments on ignoring subpoenas

Lindsey Graham et al. looking at the camera: Fox's Chris Wallace challenges Graham over past comments on ignoring subpoenas

“At that time, you said that any president, and you talked specifically about Clinton and [former President] Nixon, who defied Congress when it came to subpoenas was in danger of impeachment,” he added.

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Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo is helping Trump make courts more conservative – Washington Post

Source: Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo is helping Trump make courts more conservative – Washington Post

He is widely known as a confidant to Trump and as executive vice president of the Federalist Society, an influential nonprofit organization for conservative and libertarian lawyers that has close ties to Supreme Court justices. But behind the scenes, Leo is the maestro of a network of interlocking nonprofits working on media campaigns and other initiatives to sway lawmakers by generating public support for conservative judges.

“We’re going to have to understand that judicial confirmations these days are more like political campaigns,” Leo told the members of the Council for National Policy, according to a recording of the speech obtained by The Washington Post. “We’re going to have to be smart as a movement.”