Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Justice Department will end the American Bar Association’s role in vetting federal judges, escalating Republican efforts to sideline the legal group over claims of political bias.
In a letter sent Thursday to ABA President William R. Bay, Bondi said the DOJ under President Donald Trump would no longer grant the group first access to judicial nominees or require candidates to cooperate with the ABA’s longstanding vetting process. The move eliminates a decades-old arrangement that gave the ABA early access to potential nominees for evaluation.
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
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