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Deniers:Organisations:Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
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Website: http://www.fed-soc.org
1015 18th Street NW Suite 425
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 822-8138
Founded in 1982, the influential Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies calls itself a "group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order."
In 1983, there were 17 Federalist chapters strictly on law school campuses. Today, there are professional chapters made up of practicing attorneys in approximately 60 cities, and student chapters on 140 out of 182 accredited law school campuses (Washington Monthly, March 2000).
The Washington Monthly called The Federalist Society "the best-organized, best-funded, and most effective legal network operating in this country" and added, "what gets less attention, however, is that the Society is accomplishing in the courts what Republicans can't achieve politically" (Jerry Landay, The Federalist Society: The Conservative Cabal That's Transforming American Law, March 2000).
The Society has a large influence on the Republican Party and the Bush Administration. In 2001 The Washington Post reported that in addition to three cabinet level positions, "Federalists also hold top legal positions throughout the administration, including solicitor general and at least three slots in the White House counsel's office" (T. B. Edsall, "Federalist Society Becomes a Force in Washington," The Washington Post, 18 April. 2001). Six of Bush's first 11 nominees to the influential federal courts of appeals have been Society members and more than 20 Bush appointees are Society members. The Federalist Society's leaders include some of the most influential figures on the right, among them former Attorney General Edwin Meese III, former federal judge and Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, and former president of the Christian Coalition Donald Paul Hodel (R. G. Nea, The Federalist Society From Obscurity to Power. People for the American Way, 2001).
In June 2003, the American Enterprise Institute and Federalist Society launched NGO Watch to track the growing power of non-governmental organizations.
According to the Federalist Society 10% of the group's funding comes from individuals and foundations; the other 10% comes from corporations ( http://www.fed-soc.org/Press/FAQs.htm ). The Federalist Society received $9,683,000 in grants from conservative foundations between 1985-2002, according to Media Transparency.org.
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"I must inform you, however, that the science is not settled (as claimed by Vice President Gore), that it is not 'compelling' (as claimed by President Clinton), and that there is certainly no scientific consensus favoring global warming. If anything, the largest number of scientists, some 17,000, signed a petition against the Kyoto Protocol in 1998. And in July 1997, the US Senate passed a Resolution opposing a Kyoto-like treaty by a vote of 95 to zero." Source: Federalist Society Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group Newsletter http://www.fed-soc.org/Publications/practicegroupnewsletters/environmentallaw/environewsletters.htm"
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Global warming is nothing more than an educated guess by many of the same scientists who are still arguing about what happened to the dinosaurs. Perhaps we should think carefully before putting blind faith in people who cannot explain the simple disappearance of tens of millions of creatures, many of which were the size of locomotives." Source: Federalist Society Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group Newsletter http://www.fed-soc.org/Publications/practicegroupnewsletters/environmentallaw/environewsletters.htm
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Total funding to Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies from Exxon corporations since 1998: $US 90,000
2000
$15,000 ExxonMobil Foundation general support
Source:ExxonMobil Foundation 2000 IRS 990
2001
$15,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source:ExxonMobil 2001 Annual Report
2002
$15,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source:ExxonMobil 2002 Annual Report
2003
$15,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source:ExxonMobil 2003 Corporate Giving Report
2005
$15,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source:ExxonMobil 2005 DIMENSIONS Report (Corporate Giving)
2006
$15,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source:ExxonMobil Corporate Giving Report 2006