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As a key figure in The Federalist Society, far-right judicial activist Leonard Leo spent decades trying to get Roe v. Wade overturned. And he got his wish when, in 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its controversial, widely criticized 5-4 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Leo, for many years, aggressively lobbied to make hardline social conservatives dominant on the High Court. And he supported all of the justices who now comprise the Court’s far-right supermajority. The New York Times’ Thomas B. Edsall, in his September 18 column, details Leo’s plans to “push Amer…

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