conservative movement

'Among those who signed the brief was Richard Epstein, who teaches at
[NYU] and is an influential libertarian legal scholar.

'You have to understand that the conservative movement is now, as an
intellectual movement, consistently anti-Trump on most issues,' he
said.'

A Fiery Brief Fueled by Conservatives Helped Put Trump's Tariffs in
Peril

A powerful sign that President Trump's tariff-driven trade war is at
risk came in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in April by a coalition
that included many prominent conservative and libertarian lawyers,
scholars and former officials.

The brief was also a signal of a deepening rift between Mr. Trump and
the conservative legal movement, one that burst into public view last
week with the president's attacks on the Federalist Society, whose
leaders helped pick the judges and justices he nominated in his first
term.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/us/trump-tariffs-court-brief.html

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