Pam Bondi is sick of leftist politics coming from the American Bar Association, so on Thursday she dropped them a letter essentially saying, “Thanks but no thanks, we don’t need your help deciding on the administration’s judicial nominees anymore.”
The association has ranked several Trump judicial candidates as “unqualified” and is notably biased in favor of Democrats, according to critics.
“Unfortunately, the ABA no longer functions as a fair arbiter of nominees’ qualifications, and its ratings invariably and demonstrably favor nominees put forth by Democratic administrations,” Bondi wrote in the letter to ABA President William Bay.
“Accordingly, while the ABA is free to comment on judicial nominations along with other activist organizations, there is no justification for treating the ABA differently from such other activist organizations and the Department of Justice will not do so. Specifically, the Office of Legal Policy will no longer direct nominees to provide waivers allowing the ABA access to non-public information, including bar records. Nominees will also not respond to questionnaires prepared by the ABA and will not sit for interviews with the ABA,” she added.
The American Bar Association has lost its way, and we do not believe it serves as a fair arbiter of judicial nominees.@TheJusticeDept will no longer give the ABA the access they’ve taken for granted. pic.twitter.com/ViqX9IRa7w
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) May 29, 2025
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Yet Another Reason Why the Bar Association Can’t Be Trusted (VIP)
The organization has a reputation for taking sides:
“The ABA has a history of taking liberal positions on issues including abortion, the death penalty, same-sex marriage, affirmative action, and the Second Amendment,” National Review stated in 2019. “The organization’s ideological bias has long tainted its ratings of judicial nominees. An entire book on the subject was written as early as 1965, Joel B. Grossman’s Lawyers and Judges: The ABA and the Politics of Judicial Selection.”
The ABA was founded in 1878 and boasts a membership of over 400,000 lawyers, judges, law students and legal workers, but Republicans have long expressed concerns about its influence on the Department of Justice. Here’s Utah Sen. Mike Lee:
American Bar Association = leftist political hacks https://t.co/fokHc6pGz7
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) January 19, 2025
They sure don’t appear to be very generous to the GOP when it comes to donation time:
Of the 15 members on the ABA’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary in 2019, five donated to Barack Obama’s campaign, three to that of Hillary Clinton, and none to the three Republican nominees between 2008-2016. Incredibly, the ABA gave a minority “Not Qualified” rating to iconic Judge Robert Bork and other conservative legal scholars, including Richard A. Posner, Edith H. Jones, and William H. Pryor, among others.
The Trump Team has made it their quest to rid the government of social justice warriors and liberal deep staters who want to undermine the administration’s policy goals. Why would they want to continue to rely on judicial advice from an organization that is antithetical to what they’re trying to do?
Looks like they won’t have to anymore.
Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and Dan Bongino have brought a new era to the DOJ and the FBI.
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