2025 National Lawyers Convention
The 2025 National Lawyers Convention took place on November 6-8, 2025. All panels were livestreamed and video is now available online.
The 2025 National Lawyers Convention took place on November 6-8, 2025. All panels were livestreamed and video is now available online.
The 27th Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference will take place from January 7-8, 2026 in New Orleans, LA at the Loews New Orleans Hotel. The conference will proceed under the general aegis of the AALS Annual Meeting.
Click below to view our panels livestreamed from the historic Mayflower Hotel in downtown Washington, DC.
In RTP's new three-part video series, host Adam Thierer takes us through the hidden boundaries shaping the things Americans use daily. Experts explore the tensions between innovation and control, safety and freedom.
On October 7th, 2025, several judges hosted a panel on campus free speech, Oct. 7's impact, antisemitism, and why open debate is vital to the Western tradition.
On October 1, 2025, the Federalist Society's Faculty Division and Practice Groups hosted a panel at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC to preview the 2025 Supreme Court term. This event was livestreamed and is available in the link below.
This event kicked off a year-long celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and America's semiquincentennial.
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Ohio Attorney General, Hon. Dave Yost (@DaveYostOH), joined us at the 2025 National Lawyers Convention:  “We now have companies that have a level of scale that was only achievable by a government very recently in history…We need to return to the Founders' wisdom and separating https://t.co/cYFxRPhiLf
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Is This the End of Humphrey’s Executor? The Impact of Trump v. Slaughter Ahead of Oral Arguments https://t.co/88nxkBgpoW
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Are flavored vapes harmful or helpful?  🚬  When the FDA denied Todd Wages’ products, it set off a legal fight that reached the Supreme Court and reshaped the vaping industry. Our new short documentary, "Vape Debate at the Supreme Court", examines FDA v. Wages & White https://t.co/8sXr10EFwh
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Next week, in Trump v. Slaughter, the Supreme Court confronts these issues head-on. The case presents a rare opportunity for the Court to reassess whether Humphrey’s Executor can be squared with the Constitution’s guarantee of separation of powers. The debate surrounding this
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Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his partial dissent in Seila Law, “Humphrey’s Executor poses a direct threat to our constitutional structure and, as a result, the liberty of the American people . . . Our tolerance of independent agencies in Humphrey’s Executor is an unfortunate
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The Court has revisited these tensions repeatedly in cases like Morrison, Free Enterprise Fund, Seila Law, each time acknowledging the difficulty of reconciling Humphrey’s Executor with Article II’s text and structure.
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This framework born out of the New Deal era’s rapid expansion of government, authorized Congress to create “independent agencies” whose leaders could be shielded from presidential control. Over time, Humphrey’s Executor became the cornerstone for a host of powerful, insulated
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However, the Supreme Court ultimately held that Congress could restrict the President’s ability to remove certain agency officials, creating the modern category of “independent agencies” insulated from presidential at-will removal. This decision marked a dramatic departure from
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The Federalist Society’s Practice Group members are grouped by substantive area of law. Every Practice Group has an Executive Committee that meets once a month. These volunteers help track major developments in their area of expertise and direct the content and programming of the Practice Group. They organize events including FedSoc Forums, in person programs, and panels for several single day conferences like the annual Executive Branch Review Conference. Executive Committee members regularly author blog posts and articles featured in FedSoc’s Publications. They also help plan and present FedSoc’s flagship annual conference, the National Lawyers Convention.
