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...came close to uncovering the Hamburg cell that harbored several of the 9/11 plotters. But German intelligence officials, like their American counterparts, were unable to connect the dots. Now the German government is finally debating whether it can effectively fight terrorism without a radical overhaul of its cherished federalist system. "It must be a cause for concern that we didn't recognize what the perpetrators, who resided...
After the Hawaii ruling, Lambda reversed course. One of its top attorneys, Evan Wolfson, began traveling the country to speak on gay marriage. Both gay and straight audiences needed convincing that it wasn't a distant fantasy. "I spoke in churches, gay organizations, the Federalist Society. I spoke in almost every state in the country. This went on for years. And the real thing that started to make the big difference is when we started to believe it could happen," says Wolfson, 47, who now runs his own project called Freedom to Marry. "And once that happened--after Hawaii, after...
...Bush administration’s hostility toward much of the NGO community—and toward dissent more generally—is reflected in a new initiative of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies entitled “NGO Watch.” The initiative is motivated by the rather overwrought concern that the “extraordinary growth of advocacy NGOs...has the potential to undermine the sovereignty of constitutional democracies...
...know what you’re asking yourself: “Aren’t AEI and the Federalist Society both NGOs themselves? Don’t both of these conservative groups peddle a huge amount of influence in the current administration? Isn’t this all just the slightest bit ironic?” Yes, yes and yes. That’s chutzpah for you. Unsurprisingly, the NGOs being “watched” are mostly left-leaning consumer, environmental and social justice groups critical of the administration and possessed of pathetically little influence...
...Professor Barnett has been a long time friend of the Harvard Federalist Society,” said Beth A. Schonmuller ’01, a third-year at Harvard Law School and leader of the Harvard Federalist Society. “It is important to invite speakers who we think will provoke debate and free thought as well as the expression of ideas on the University campus...