All posts tagged "Bar Association"

The Department of Justice is trying to intimidate bar associations, which license and oversee lawyers, and legal experts are sounding the alarm.

Acting U.S. Attorney Todd Blanche "has been trying to intimidate state bars across the country and local bars," warned Adam Klasfeld, a legal journalist, in an episode of the Legal AF podcast. Blanche was hit with a bar complaint earlier this week for launching an investigation into Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The DOJ, under Blanche's leadership, sued the D.C. Bar earlier this month and tried to strip state bars of the jurisdiction involving DOJ lawyers, Klasfeld said. The moves are part of a "campaign of intimidation," Klasfeld went on, worried that it could have a "chilling effect" on bars nationwide....

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave an ominous answer when asked at an Indianapolis Bar Association event on Thursday, "What keeps you up at night?"

According to CNN, Jackson responded, "I would say the state of our democracy," adding, "I am really very interested in getting people to focus and to invest and to pay attention to what is happening in our country and in our government.”

Jackson did not go into detail about "what, specifically, concerned her about the state of democracy," CNN reported, "though she has recently written a series of scathing dissents critical of both President Donald Trump’s administration and the Supreme Court’s review of cases involving its policies."...