Top Federalist Society officials are intimately involved in the inner workings of the Antonin Scalia Law School, an arrangement that appears to contradict how the agreement was presented to faculty. In the newly released emails between Federalist Society leaders, the dean of the law school and other top officials plot out additional ways to use the donation, communicating about a “five-year plan” for the law school and candidates for new professorships, potential students and judicial clerk positions. Among its top donors are Koch Industries, David Koch, the Charles Koch Foundation, Chevron, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation and the US Chamber of Commerce. The society, founded in 1982, counted Scalia - a close friend of Leo’s - as its first faculty adviser. Leo was instrumental in getting conservative and Federalist Society member Neil Gorsuch a seat on the US Supreme Court in early 2017, offering the Trump administration suggested nominees and meeting personally with the president. ![]() Leo and his society represent the anonymous donor and make sure the law school is adhering to that donor’s wishes. BH Fund’s secretary and treasurer is Jonathan Bunch, vice president and director of external relations at the Federalist Society. In August 2017, in response to records requests, the administrator of the mystery money was revealed to be a company called BH Fund, a “501(c)(4) Virginia nonstock corporation.” Allison Pienta, the alumna of the law school who filed for the documents, discovered that BH Fund’s president is Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, a highly political organization of conservative lawyers that has dozens of university chapters and tries to impact federal judge selection.
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