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Which legal organization has Ashcroft been involved with?

  • American Civil Liberties Union

  • The Federalist Society

  • The Innocence Project

  • None of the above

Answer

The Federalist Society is a conservative legal organization that Ashcroft has been involved with. The organization was founded in 1982 by a group of law students at Yale Law School. Its stated mission is to promote "originalism" in constitutional interpretation, which is the view that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the original intent of the framers.
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