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List of conservative United States legal figures
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This is a list of conservative American legal figures, including Supreme Court justices, members of other federal and state courts, executive branch legal figures, and prominent legal scholars. They believe in conservative judicial philosophy, which usually include judicial restraint, respect for precedence, textualism, originalism and opposition to judicial activism. Many of them are members of the conservative Federalist Society. Supreme Court justices * Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter (18591941; in Supreme Court: 19101937) * Associate Justice James Clark McReynolds (19242005; in Supreme Court as Chief Justice: 19862005; as Associate Justice: 19721986) * Associate Justice Antonin Scalia (1948; in Supreme Court: 1991) * Associate Justice Samuel Alito (1950; in Supreme Court: 2006) Prominent others * Raoul Berger (19012000; legal scholar, widely regarded as the first prominent originalist) * Robert Bork (1939; Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, legal scholar, economist and very important figure in law and economics) * Theodore Olson (1942; libertarian legal theorist) *Richard Epstein (1943; legal scholar and a prominent figure in law and economics) * Kenneth Starr (1946; judge, Solicitor General, academic and independent counsel) * Edith Brown Clement (1948; judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit) * Frank H. Easterbrook (1948; Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and legal scholar) * Alex Kozinski (1950; Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit) * Randy Barnett (1952; legal scholar and a prominent originalist) * Thomas B. Griffith (1954; Judge of the US Court of Appeals for D.C. Circuit) * Michael W. McConnell (1955; judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and legal scholar) * Peter Keisler (1960; Assistant Attorney General of the United States for Civil Division and co-founder of the Federalist Society) * Paul Clement (1965; U.S. District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas) See Also
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