The Trump administration’s latest attacks on the American Bar Association threaten the group’s revenue streams, along with its power and prestige.
The professional legal organization is suing the Trump administration over its planned cuts to USAID from which it derives a significant amount of grant money. The ABA has had tens of millions of dollars in USAID and State Department funding frozen, it said in the lawsuit filed Feb. 11.
The Justice Department on Feb. 28 threatened to pull the ABA’s accreditation powers for law schools if it doesn’t drop a diversity rule. The administration and allies also cut ABA ...