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President Donald Trump is being warned that he "chose the wrong targets" when he went after the powerful Federalist Society and its co-founder as part of his war on judges who refuse to bend to his will, according to a political science professor writing for MSNBC.

The Federalist Society and co-founder Leonard Leo helped Trump choose Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett during his first term.

But on Truth Social last week, Trump called Leo a “sleazebag” and “a bad person who, in his own way, probably hates America," while he blamed the Federalist Society for “the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations.”...