Yes, the Federalist society developed over decades a near lock on which GOP judges could progress in most States and Federally. If you were a republican judge, and you wanted career advancement you quickly learned that would be denied to you, if you did not fit the Federalist mold and requirements and were political enough to know how NOT to say that part out loud and willing to lie in confirmation hearings.
This was in backlash to prior decades of republican nominations, who looked good on paper to other republicans, becoming more moderate and putting aside ideology when they achiev ed the highest courts. Many republi'cans' felt betrayed by these compromise, more centrist rulings and they set out, thru the federalist society to make sure that would not happen in the future.
That is also why they are pushing in younger and younger ideologue justices who clearly do not even understand or care about the law. ONes like Matthew Kacsmaryk and Aileen Cannon who will make lawless rulings in favour of ideology. If both of them were not exposed thru recent lawless rulings you can bet the Federalist society would have quickly pushed them to the higher courts.
The Federalist society has realized that the dumber the ideologue they promote, the more reliant they will be on the Federalist society in their rulings and their 'friend of the court' amicus brief filings. A dumb person is more likely to stick to partisan beliefs over reason and logic as they do not have the capacity to use reason and logic.
The courts are yet another Institution the republiclowns are set out to destroy both in practice and public credibility. They have succeeded at the SC level and as more of the Judges Trump pushed thru in his term are exposed, the circuit courts will follow the SC. Sad.
