All posts tagged "American Bar Association"

A top Trump Justice Department official is threatening the nation's biggest lawyers' group over a rule he says crimps his side job.

Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, the DOJ's third-ranking official, warned the American Bar Association in an October 7 letter that it could face an antitrust investigation if it doesn't loosen limits on part-time law professors, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

Woodward, who has been an adjunct law professor at Catholic University, according to his department bio, wrote that the rule appears to restrict his own ability to teach first-year students....

The American Bar Association, which boasts hundreds of thousands of attorney members, is fighting back against the Trump administration's targeting of law firms and attorneys that have run afoul of the president, according to CBS News.

Justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane posted the news to X on Monday, writing, "American Bar Assoc. files civil suit vs. Trump Admin. seeking court order that Trump's executive orders targeting attorneys & firms are UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

"Suit: Trump orders stripping attorneys of security clearances & targeting firms are govt-endorsed 'blacklist.'"...

In remarks to the American Bar Association in San Francisco on Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder called for major changes to the nation's criminal justice system. He warned that mandatory minimum sentences had flooded courts and prisons with low-level drug offenders.

Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the American Bar Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

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Thanks, Norbizness, for reminding me that just because the Bushies are on their way out the door doesn't mean that they aren't still the worst motherfuckers to descend on our capitol. Attorney General Michael Mukasey has declined the no doubt exciting opportunity to prosecute his criminally minded cronies.