Category:Leonard Leo: Difference between revisions

'''Leonard A. Leo''' (born 1965) is an American [[Wikipedia:lawyer|lawyer]] and conservative activist.<ref>{{cite web|title=Leonard A. Leo|url=http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/author/leonard-a-leo|publisher=Federalist Society|accessdate=21 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521215904/http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/author/leonard-a-leo|archive-date=21 May 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Leo has led campaigns to support the Supreme Court nominations of [[John Roberts]], [[Samuel Alito]], [[Neil Gorsuch]] and [[Brett Kavanaugh]]. In 2017 (before Justice Kavanaugh's appointment and confirmation), legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin wrote that Leo was "responsible, to a considerable extent, for one third of the justices on the Supreme Court."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/04/12/523495201/how-one-man-brought-justices-roberts-alito-and-gorsuch-to-the-supreme-court|title=How One Man Brought Justices Roberts, Alito And Gorsuch To The Supreme Court|website=NPR.org|language=en|access-date=2019-06-10}}</ref> Leo described himself in 2019 as "a leader of the conservative legal movement."<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/leonard-leo-federalists-society-courts/|title=A conservative activist's behind-the-scenes campaign to remake the nation's courts|last=|first=|date=2019|work=The Washington Post|access-date=}}</ref>

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