The Federalist Society makes the following dishonest claims.
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order. It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. The Society seeks both to promote an awareness of these principles and to further their application through its activities.
This entails reordering priorities within the legal system to place a premium on individual liberty, traditional values, and the rule of law.
The rhetoric does not match up with the reality.
First, there is nothing libertarian about the Federalist Society. The Federalist Society wants government impeding in your private and personal life. Second, the Federalist Society is about destroying freedom. Their views on executive powers, the Bill of Rights, the 14th amendment, the Commerce Clause, etc... demonstrate the Federalist Society's real radical agenda. Third, the Federalist Society does not believe in separation of government powers unless it suits their radical agenda. Fourth, the Federalist Society supports judges who ignore the law, not reinforce it.
Fifth, the Federalist Society seeks to destroy individual liberty in this country. Sixth, the Federalist Society gives itself away with its code words of "traditional values" which means replace the Constitution with a fundamentalist theocratic agenda. Seventh, the rule of law means nothing to Federalist Society radicals. Here's how they've sought to destroy freedom and rip up the Constitution.
OVERVIEW OF FEDERALIST SOCIETY AGENDA
1. Friendly government bureaucrats and friendly corporations can do whatever they want. We've seen radical right wing Federalist Society justices time and time again issue rulings that allow these bureaucrats and corporations to a) have employees falsely arrested; b) physically abuse employees; c) fire employees purely for retaliatory reasons; and d) discriminate against race or gender. In these multitude of cases, right wing justices create legal fictions against laws ON THE BOOKS to dismiss said case.
2. Ignore the Bill of Rights and the Civil Rights amendments. This is the broadest area of Federalist Society UnAmericanism. The Bill of Rights and the Civil War Amendments say what they say. Yet in a litany of cases, right wing Federalist Society justices have issued rulings which strike down laws passed pursuant to these amendments and created "novel" legal barriers which effectively prevent any aggrieved party from prevailing in a case.
This manifests itself in several ways. For example all citizens are entitled to due process, equal protection under the law, a right of privacy against unreasonable searches and seizures, the freedom of and from religion, the right to assemble peacefully,
Granted, no right is absolute but with right wing justices, your rights evaporate. If a constitutional amendment was passed tomorrow outlawing all of these rights, then they would lawfully no longer exist but the point is, these rights are the law of the land. But instead of faithfully executing the Constitution, the conservative justices deliberately IGNORE the Constitution (an impeachable offense) and substitute their own radical agenda. These rulings go way beyond the pale of a good faith differing interpretation of the law.
3. Ignore the Commerce Clause in the Constitution and strike down commerce laws which big businesses disapprove of. The Commerce Clause gives Congress wide powers "to regulate Commerce." This is an area of law best left to legislators. And if Congress doesn't act, we have what's known as the Dormant Commerce Clause where states are given wide latitude to regulate commerce. The elementary theory here is that if legislators pass bad economic laws, you can vote them out and replace them. Thus, although there are many laws passed by Congress that I personally despise, I, if in the role of a judge, would rule them as constitutional because I would feel obligated to by the Constitution.
However, radical right wing justices have taken it upon themselves to ignore the Commerce Clause whenever it suits their Big Business Buddies. When the radicals don't like the state law and prefer federal policy, they create fictions like market preemption which appears in no law and no Constitution. If they like the state law and not the federal law and the fact pattern is exactly the same, the right wing justices will do a 180 and now claim that this is a state issue on adequate and independent state grounds. If that doesn't work they'll concoct some BS claim of lack of standing, mootness, or ripeness.
Federalist Society Judges follow ONE AND ONLY ONE PRINCIPLE - REACH THE CONCLUSION YOU PERSONALLY WANT + then try to write an opinion that looks scholarly or justified. (Something they rarely can do because of the speciousness of their positions.) It's time that real agenda was exposed and spoken out against more vigorously.