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The <em>Other</em> Memo That Started the Conservative Legal Movement
It has become almost an article of faith among liberals: The Powell memo, an urgent call for American business and conservatives to battle for the courts, written by soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 1971, …