| 词条 | Leonard Leo |
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|name = Leonard Leo |birth_name = |birth_date = {{birth year and age|1965}} |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |party = Republican |education = Cornell University {{small|(BA, JD)}} |known_for = Executive Vice President of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies |spouse = Sally |children = 7 }}Leonard A. Leo (born 1965) is an American lawyer who currently serves as executive vice president of the Federalist Society.[1] Early life and educationLeo was born on Long Island, New York in 1965.[2] He attended Cornell University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1986, and working as an intern in the office of Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT).[2] Leo completed a law degree at Cornell Law School in 1989, then clerked for federal judge A. Raymond Randolph of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[3][2] While studying law at Cornell, Leo founded a student chapter of the Federalist Society in 1989, and subsequently went to work for the Society in 1991 in Washington, D.C.[2] CareerLeo served as National Co-Chairman of Catholic Outreach for the Republican National Committee, and as the 2004 Bush presidential campaign's Catholic Strategist. He was appointed by President George W. Bush and the United States Senate to three terms on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.[4] He has been a U.S. Delegate to the UN Council and UN Commission on Human Rights as well as the Organization of Security and Cooperation and World Health Assembly. Leo has served as an observer at the World Intellectual Property Organization and as a member of the U.S. National Commission to UNESCO. Leo organized efforts in support of the John Roberts and Samuel Alito U.S. Supreme Court confirmations.[5][6] He received the 2009 Bradley Prize.[7] Leo has been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Huffington Post.[8][9][10] He is a board member of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast and a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.[11][12] In 2016, after the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Leo helped arrange funding to rename George Mason University's Law School the Antonin Scalia Law School.[13] Leo was also identified by 2017 Supreme Court-nominee Neil Gorsuch as the person who first contacted Gorsuch about the possibility of President Donald Trump appointing Gorsuch to the seat vacated by Scalia's death.[14] Works
References1. ^{{cite web|title=Leonard A. Leo|url=http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/author/leonard-a-leo|publisher=Federalist Society|accessdate=21 May 2014}} 2. ^1 2 3 {{cite news |last=Toobin |first=Jeffrey|date=April 17, 2017 |title=The Consevtive Pipeline to the Supreme Court |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/the-conservative-pipeline-to-the-supreme-court |work=The New Yorker |location=New York |access-date=September 29, 2017 }} 3. ^{{cite news |last1=Lipton |first1=Eric |last2=Peters |first2=Jeremy |date=March 18, 2017 |title=In Gorsuch, Conservative Activist Sees Test Case for Reshaping the Judiciary |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/us/politics/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-conservatives.html |work=The New York Times |location=New York |access-date=September 29, 2017 }} 4. ^{{cite news|last=Prodromou|first=Elizabeth|title=Protecting Religious Freedom Abroad|url=http://hir.harvard.edu/protecting-religious-freedom-abroad|accessdate=21 May 2014|newspaper=Harvard International Review|date=July 1, 2011|author2=Leo, Leonard}} 5. ^{{cite news|last=Kirkpatrick|first=David|title=A Year of Work to Sell Roberts to Conservatives|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/22/politics/politicsspecial1/22lobby.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|accessdate=21 May 2014|newspaper=New York Times|date=July 22, 2005}} 6. ^{{cite news|last=Cook|first=Robin|title=Confirmation of High Court Justices Akin to Political Campaign, Leo Says|url=http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/alumni/uvalawyer/f06/leo.htm|accessdate=21 May 2014|newspaper=UVA Lawyer|date=Fall 2006}} 7. ^{{cite news|title=Bradley Prize recipient Leonard Leo begins chairmanship of religious-freedom commission|url=http://www.bradleyfdn.org/On-Lion-Letter/ID/511/Bradley-Prize-recipient-Leonard-Leo-begins-chairmanship-of-religious-freedom-commission|accessdate=21 May 2014|newspaper=Bradley Foundation|date=July 2009}} 8. ^{{cite news|last=Leo|first=Leonard|title=Thirty Questions for Alito: Finality and Fallibility|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/09/opinion/09leo.html|accessdate=21 May 2014|newspaper=New York Times|date=January 9, 2006}} 9. ^{{cite news|last=Leo|first=Leonard|title=Nigeria's Descent Into Religious Strife|url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303828304575179860046874350|accessdate=21 May 2014|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=April 12, 2010|author2=Argue, Donald}} 10. ^{{cite news|last=Leo|first=Leonard|title=Confronting China's Failure on Religious Freedom|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leonard-leo|accessdate=21 May 2014|newspaper=Huffington Post|date=January 19, 2011}} 11. ^{{Cite web|url=https://acton.org/event/2017/05/11/leonard-leo|title=A Judicial Renaissance? The Trump Administration & the Future of the Federal Judiciary- Leonard Leo|website=Acton Institute|language=en|access-date=2018-08-20}} 12. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.becketlaw.org/media/leonard-leo-receives-religious-libertys-highest-honor/|title=Leonard Leo receives religious liberty’s highest honor - Becket|work=Becket|access-date=2018-08-20|language=en-US}} 13. ^{{cite news|last1=Sloan|first1=Karen|title=George Mason Law School To Become Antonin Scalia School of Law|url=http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202753798629/George-Mason-Law-School-To-Become-Antonin-Scalia-School-of-Law?slreturn=20160506160026|accessdate=6 June 2016|publisher=The National Law Journal|date=March 31, 2016}} 14. ^Flegenheimer, Matt; Carl Hulse, Charlie Savage, and Adam Liptak, [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/us/politics/judge-gorsuch-supreme-court-confirmation-hearings.html "Partisanship Runs High at Gorsuch Confirmation Hearing"], New York Times, March 20, 2017 2:03 pm. Retrieved 2017-03-20. External links
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