On Monday, the Department of Labor’s Trump-appointed Solicitor Jonathan Berry told staff to stop engaging with the American Bar Association (ABA) in their official capacities.
Berry noted in an email to Fox News Digital that the organization “engages in liberal activism and that any federal participation would only boost its influence.”
Trump-appointed Solicitor Jonathan Berry wrote in an email that the hundreds of attorneys at the Department of Labor are not to use taxpayer funds to participate in any ABA events or use their government job titles at them, according to a copy of the email reviewed by Fox News Digital.
“The ABA is strategically equivocal about its ideological stance,” Berry wrote. “Equivocal in that the ABA holds itself out as non-ideological at certain times, but takes decidedly radical ideological positions at others.”
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“There is genuine benefit to our attorneys engaging with the employer bar in ABA programs, but the benefit genuinely feeds the problem too: Our participation in ‘neutral’ ABA events contributes to institutional stature the ABA leverages to advance radical goals as if they were ‘neutral,’” Berry wrote. “No more.”
ABA, a voluntary professional organization for lawyers that describes itself as nonpartisan, is supposed to focus on advancing the “rule of law, professional standards, and access to justice.”
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