This is the Age of Legislation (or, actually, the Age of Administrative regulation). Yet it is still the case that the legal understandings that course through and inform the interpretation of legislation, constitutions, and the common law are largely the production of lawyers, judges, and legal scholars. Legal actors--their ideas, beliefs, and concepts--give life to the law. If that is correct, the Federalist Society and its various supportive adjuncts may come to have a formidable impact on American law.

-- Brian Tamahana in Laissez Faire Redux? over at Balkinzation.

I start needed to post some analysis rather than just cross linking to other analysts. Maybe when I have some time [ha!].