No Secret Handshakes

From R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., the founder and editor-in-chief of The American Spectator:

WASHINGTON -- With the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to the Supreme Court by President George W. Bush, Democrats and liberals -- usually one and the same -- are again fastening their attention on a national organization composed mainly of libertarian conservative lawyers and judges called the Federalist Society. The Society is not open solely to adepts of the law. Others too can join. I myself have been a member in good standing for some years and can report that the Society exerts no secret demands on its members. I have not had to learn any secret handshake or attend late night meetings in any sacred groves. We learn no mumbo jumbo save for the usual legal terms known by many Americans, for instance, malum prohibitum, quid pro quo, dormio ergo sum.