Trump goes after Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society in fury over court ruling Trump’s attack came after the U.S. Court of International Trade struck down his tariffs, a blow to the primary ...

Leonard Leo, co-chariman of the Federalist Society board of directors, speaks at the University of Cambridge in England on March 11, 2025. Nordin Catic/Getty Images for The Cambridge Union ...

Ad Policy Leonard Leo, former head of the Federalist Society, and Donald Trump. (Nordin Catic / Getty Images for The Cambridge Union; Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) One of the keys to Donald Trump ...

Last week, Donald Trump turned his fire on the Federalist Society, a powerful conservative advocacy group, and its co-founder Leonard Leo, a key adviser to Trump on judicial nominations during his ...

Leo has since stepped back from the Federalist Society and is now working to extend his reach beyond the courts with the Teneo Network, which he has described as an effort to “crush liberal ...

But the appellate court’s decision didn’t soothe Trump. He took to Truth Social on May 29 to post a 510-word screed attacking ...

Of all of President Donald Trump’s deals, none may be more consequential than the one he struck in 2016 with Leonard Leo. The Federalist Society, President Trump announced, would manage his ...

Leonard Leo, Executive Vice President of the Federalist Society, talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Oct. 6, 2018. ERIN SCHAFF/NYT ...

The president called the prominent judicial activist Leonard Leo a “real ‘sleazebag’” and said the Federalist Society had led him astray in his first term.

In any event, Leo left The Federalist Society to do his own ‘thing.’ I am so disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations.

The president, in a post on his social media platform, slammed Leonard Leo, the former chair of the Federalist Society, calling him a “sleazebag” who “probably hates America.” ...