
United States Attorney Genearal Pam Bondi and President Donald Trump tour the Justice Department. March 14, 2025. Photo courtesy of the White House via DOJ @ X.com.
The American Bar Association was dealt a serious blow by Attorney General Pam Bondi, who reneged on the association’s status as the preferred organization for vetting potential judicial nominees. A.R. Hoffman reports in The New York Sun:
Attorney General Bondi’s demotion of the American Bar Association from pride of place in evaluating judicial nominees amounts to a blow against a legal establishment that has tilted left.
Ms. Bondi, in a letter, told the bar association’s president, William Bay, to fix “the bias in its rating process” in respect of candidates for the federal bench. She laments, “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.”
While the attorney general insists that the ABA remains free to make its views known on judicial nominees, the DOJ “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.”
Bondi’s letter to the ABA is below:
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