1. The Federalist Society has a John Eastman problem, which is very similar to Mitch McConnell's Donald Trump problem: what to do with a crucial political ally who has bad optics & damages your attempt to present yourself as a responsible pillar of mainstream.
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3. The reason Eastman is a problem for Federalist Society is that the organization is essentially an ideological laundering operation. It's job is to take right-wing policy preferences & gussy them in respectable legal garb. But to do that you need mainstream buy-in.
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4. The ideological laundry operation only works if you are maintain two-faces: a right face of partisan rectitude that attracts the believers and a left face of "we're just a debating society" to get Ivy League big law types (admittedly easy marks) to give you stamp of approval
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5. The Federalist Society is caught in a trap with Eastman: they can neither explicitly disavow him (he represents too big a faction of their membership & donors) nor can they publicly embrace (which would reveal to even lunkhead centrists & MSM the nature of their politics).
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6. So far, Federalist Society has dealt with this through a quiet subrosa distancing from Eastman. But whether that can hold is doubtful. More here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-federalist-societys-silent-brush?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source= …
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