Republicans in Washington have waged a war against the American Bar Association, the nation’s largest association of legal workers, amid the organization putting out a sweeping and defiant statement criticizing the Trump administration‘s actions.
Republican senators called for President Donald Trump to excise the ABA from the judicial nomination process, and Attorney General Pam Bondi took aim at its authority over law school accreditation. These moves came against the backdrop of the Trump administration more broadly targeting what the White House has said is the politicization of “big law.”
“We have a serious problem in this country, which is that the American Bar Association, our major university law schools, and our major law firms have become an instrument of the hard Left,” deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said in a recent television interview, adding that “big law” has attempted “to turn law into an…
