Charles Cooper

The Reagan administration were quite animated about efforts to restore presidential authority to its true scope under Article II.

And that's where the concept of the unitary executive kind of was born. There is only one president, one chief executive. And that chief executive, under the clear command of Article II, possesses all of the executive power of the federal government.

The Reagan administration was quite devoted to trying to identify potential nominees to the bench. who adhered to the kind of conservative legal philosophy that the Federalist Society was founded to develop, to debate, to advance, and it has become extremely successful.

Justice Thomas, a couple of important posts in the Reagan administration.

Other justices in different later administrations, but still executive branch officials, Kavanaugh. Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Gorsuch. Judge Neil Gorsuch. There's no question that it has become a very effective organization for the promoting of the tenets of a conservative legal philosophy that

that conservative administrations understandably are interested in seeing ascend into prominence on the federal bench.

I believe it was unprecedented that a president actually published a list of names The president would likely consider for appointments to Supreme Court.