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Selection of the 234 judges appointed in Trump’s first term was then “in-sourced” to the Federalist Society, according to former White House counsel Don McGahn.

When George W. Bush nominated his friend and White House counsel Harriet Miers for the high court in 2005, the conservative legal movement pushed back hard and forced her to withdraw from consideration.

Trump’s White House counsel would joke about this at a Federalist Society gala: Trump hadn’t outsourced judicial appointments to them, he cracked: “Frankly, it seems like it’s been in-sourced.”

Bondi provided a legal memorandum addressing all of these issues to the White House counsel’s office last week, after Warrington asked her about the legality of the Pentagon accepting a massive palace in the sky.

In 1971, Charles Colson, a special counsel, known as Nixon's "hatchet man," organized a 20-person list soon approved by John Dean, then chief White House counsel.