Thursday, though, Trump posted that he was "disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations" and said that Leo left the conservative organization to "do his own thing.'"
Trump's relationship with Leo also reportedly became strained after Justices Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch, the three conservative justices he appointed to the Supreme Court, did not intervene to keep him in office after his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden.
Three other conservative justices, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Justice Samuel Alito, have also been linked to the Federalist Society, mainly through Leo, reports Time.