February 12, 2025

American Bar Association takes on Trump

 Huffington Post -   The American Bar Association issued a blistering missive on the chaos President Donald Trump has unleashed in the early days of his second administration, urging the nation’s courts and attorneys to stand as a bulwark for the rule of law.

“It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected,” ABA President William R. Bay began the statement. “But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they have been asked to perform.”...

He called on the administration to remember basic civics lessons about the three coequal branches of American government ...

The ABA, a nonpartisan legal accreditation group, has served to maintain academic and ethical standards for law schools and those in the legal profession since 1878.

 

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