American Bar Association Sues Trump Administration To Stop Lawyer Intimidation

The American Bar Association has filed a lawsuit to stop members of the Trump administration from using their power to intimidate law firms.

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The American Bar Association is fighting back in court against the Trump administration’s policy of intimidating law firms and trying to force them not to oppose their policies.

The ABA wrote in the lawsuit:

Because the threat that the President will continue to issue potentially devastating executive orders against law firms who do not “behave” remains urgent and outstanding—and because it is not merely a threat but a proven pattern—this chill “of blizzard proportions” continues to grip most of the top law firms and lawyers in the country.

That is why the ABA is filing this lawsuit. As the nation’s largest voluntary association of lawyers (which counts lawyers from every AmLaw 100 firm among its membership), the ABA is uniquely situated to achieve meaningful and certain relief against this unconstitutional Policy on behalf of a substantial part of the American bar. Pursuing such relief furthers the mission of the ABA “[t]o s…