Inside Bush's Supreme Team

This Business Week article describes three men it characterizes as the Bush Administation's strategists on judicial confirmations.

Rounding out the triumvirate is an unassuming, bespectacled wonk, Leonard A. Leo, 39, executive vice-president of The Federalist Society. Credited with transforming the Federalists from a sleepy debate club into a conservative powerhouse that challenges liberal orthodoxy in Washington and on law school campuses, Leo has a deep institutional knowledge of the legal community and its top thinkers. He is vetting potential nominees not only for their conservative philosophy but also for their intellectual heft. He can call on two Rolodexes -- one packed with legal contacts, the other with contacts made as Bush's liaison to Catholics during the 2004 Presidential campaign. "He's a guy who can divide the sheep from the goats," says Robert P. George, director of Princeton's James Madison Program in American Ideals & Institutions. Leo is overseas and declined to comment for this story.

He might have volunteered a comment when he read "bespectacled wonk."