The Washington Post Magazine: Issue for January 6, 2019

28 pages, plus covers. Cover illustration of President Trump in an image of the group signing the Declaration of Independence. Images of members of the U.S. Supreme Court are also in the drawing. Illustrations (many in color). Rare surviving copy. The main article is entitled "The Great Court Takeover by David Montgomery" and covers How one D.C. group is helping conservatives win the judicial war. (pages 12-21). There are also articles about voting, Pentagon-hating, Jerry Fallwell, Jr, Liberty University, Date Lab, Dining, and Gene Weingarten. NOTE: On November 30, 2022 The Washington Post announced that it will stop publishing its stand-alone print magazine, one of the last of its kind in the country and which has been published under different names for more than six decades, and that the December 25, 2002 issue will be its last. The Post launched the magazine in its current form in 1986, though it had published a print Sunday magazine for the previous quarter century. The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies (FedSoc) is an American conservative and libertarian legal organization that advocates for a textualist and originalist interpretation of the United States Constitution. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., it has chapters at every U.S. law school and features student, lawyer, and faculty divisions; the lawyers division comprises more than 70,000 practicing attorneys in ninety cities. Through speaking events, lectures, and other activities, it provides a forum for members of the legal profession, the judiciary, and the legal academy. It is one of the most influential legal organizations in the United States. The Federalist Society was founded in 1982 by a group of students from Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, and the University of Chicago Law School with the aim of challenging liberal or left-wing ideology within elite American law schools and universities. The organization's stated objectives are "checking federal power, protecting individual liberty and interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning",and it plays a central role in networking and mentoring young conservative lawyers. It vetted President Donald Trump's list of potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees; in March 2020, 43 out of 51 of Trump's appellate court nominees were current or former members of the society. Of the current nine members of the Supreme Court of the United States, at least five are current or former members of the organization-Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Amy Coney Barrett. Chief Justice John Roberts previously served as a member of the steering committee of the Washington, D.C., chapter, but denies ever being a member. Presumed first edition/first printing thus.…