Attorney General Pam Bondi just delivered a devastating blow to the left-wing legal establishment.
She exposed decades of bias hiding in plain sight.
And Pam Bondi just exposed one nasty secret about the ABA that has Democrats shaking.
Bondi drops the hammer on the American Bar Association
For decades, the American Bar Association has held a privileged position in the judicial selection process.
The organization routinely received early notifications about potential nominees before the public knew anything about them.
In some cases, administrations would base their nomination decisions entirely on what the ABA thought about a candidate.
But Attorney General Pam Bondi just put an end to that cozy relationship.
On Thursday, Bondi announced she was cutting the American Bar Association off from the judicial nominee process entirely.
“For several decades, the American Bar Association has received special treatment and enjoyed special access to judicial nominees,” Bondi wrote in a letter to ABA president William R. Bay.
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 Bondi (@AGPamBondi) May 29, 2025
The reason for the dramatic move was simple.
The ABA had been playing partisan politics for years.
The ugly truth about ABA bias gets exposed
Bondi didn’t hold back when she explained why the Justice Department was giving the ABA the boot.
“Unfortunately, the ABA no longer functions as a fair arbiter of nominees’ qualifications, and its ratings invariably and demonstrably favor nominees put forth by Democratic administrations,” she wrote.
This wasn’t some new development that caught everyone by surprise.
The ABA’s left-wing bias has been documented for decades.
Judicial Crisis Network president Carrie Campbell Severino wrote a comprehensive report in 2018 exposing the ABA’s partisan agenda.
“The ABA has a history of taking liberal positions on issues including abortion, the death penalty, same-sex marriage, affirmative action, and the Second Amendment,” Severino reported.
The documented evidence of political bias stretches back generations.
Academic research from 1965 first raised questions about the organization’s neutrality in a book examining their role in judicial selection.
Later investigations continued to find problems with their approach.
A 2006 Wall Street Journal editorial slammed the ABA’s “long history of ideological sandbagging.”
A 2012 study published in Political Research Quarterly found “strong evidence of systematic bias in favor of Democratic nominees.”
The numbers don’t lie about ABA’s partisan games
The data tells a story that’s impossible to ignore.
During Trump’s first term, the ABA handed out “Not Qualified” ratings to eight judicial nominees in just the first two years.
The American Bar Association sat on the sidelines as our legal system was weaponized against normal Americans.
Now, they launch a pressure campaign against President Trump on day one.
We’ve had enough. It’s time to liberate our legal system from this failed institution. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/C2XwX2Cb8w
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) March 7, 2025
Compare that to the Clinton presidency, when the same rating was given to only four nominees across eight full years in office.
The message was crystal clear.
The ABA was using its supposedly neutral role to wage political warfare against conservative judicial nominees.
More recently, the ABA has also taken several unnecessary swipes at the Trump administration’s executive orders.
On Feb. 10 and Mar. 3, the ABA sent two highly partisan statements parroting leftist talking points and saying “Americans expect better.” https://t.co/tHbJ1X1Sce
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) March 7, 2025
They couldn’t help themselves from inserting their political opinions into matters that had nothing to do with judicial qualifications.
Justice Department delivers the final blow
The Justice Department’s response was swift and decisive.
Bondi made it clear that the era of preferential treatment was ending immediately.
“Accordingly, while the ABA is free to comment on judicial nominations along with other activist organizations, there is no justification for treating the ABA differently from such other activist organizations and the Department of Justice will not do so,” she wrote.
The new policy strips away all the special privileges the ABA enjoyed.
“Specifically, the Office of Legal Policy will no longer direct nominees to provide waivers allowing the ABA access to non-public information, including bar records. Nominees will also not respond to questionnaires prepared by the ABA and will not sit for interviews with the ABA,” Bondi concluded.
This move didn’t come out of nowhere.
A group of Republican senators had already sent a letter to the ABA warning them about their bias.
The senators called the ABA “a biased and ideologically captured institution” and urged their colleagues to ignore the group’s ratings.
“We also call upon President Trump and the Department of Justice to remove the ABA from the judicial nomination process entirely,” the senators wrote.
Bondi listened and delivered exactly what they asked for.
The Swamp fights back
The ABA’s response to getting cut off was telling.
As of Thursday, they had “no comment” on losing their special access to the judicial nomination process.
Their silence speaks volumes about how they know they’ve been caught red-handed.
For decades, the ABA masqueraded as a neutral arbiter of judicial qualifications while secretly advancing a left-wing political agenda.
They used their privileged position to torpedo conservative nominees while giving Democrats a free pass.
But those days are over.
Attorney General Pam Bondi just showed that the Trump administration won’t tolerate partisan games disguised as professional standards.
The ABA can still issue all the biased ratings they want.
The difference is that now everyone knows they’re just another activist organization pushing a political agenda.
And they’ll be treated exactly like what they are.
