No Secrets Here: Federalist Society Plots In the Open

Conservative Legal Group Focuses on Judiciary to Come

By David Montgomery

Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 18, 2006; Page C01

Election? What election?

The pinstriped tribe of conservative legal minds called the Federalist Society -- more than 1,000 of whom gathered at the Mayflower Hotel this week -- is playing a much longer strategic game. Yesterday they had Sen. Arlen Specter at breakfast, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff before lunch and Vice President Cheney at cocktail hour. The message: full speed ahead with the movement.