{"id":2411864,"date":"2025-03-10T07:55:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senators-urge-colleagues-trump-to-disregard-leftist-aba\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T07:55:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:55:55","slug":"senators-urge-colleagues-trump-to-disregard-leftist-aba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senators-urge-colleagues-trump-to-disregard-leftist-aba\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Urge Colleagues, Trump To Disregard Leftist ABA"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenators-urge-colleagues-trump-to-disregard-leftist-aba%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2411864&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u2064American Bar Association (ABA), \u200destablished nearly 150 years ago, is criticized by a group of conservative lawmakers,\u200c including Senator eric Schmitt of Missouri, for its perceived\u2063 leftist bias \u200cand failure to uphold its stated principles of \u2062justice and liberty. the lawmakers argue that\u200d the \u2064ABA has been silent while far-left entities have weaponized the government\u2064 against\u2064 political adversaries. They claim\u2062 that the ABA&#8217;s ratings of judicial nominees\u2064 are politically motivated endorsements rather than objective evaluations of qualifications. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter, the senators\u200c demand their colleagues to disregard ABA recommendations regarding legislation\u2062 and judicial nominations, labeling the \u200borganization as a &#8220;failed\u200b institution&#8221; that lacks\u200d impartiality. They also \u2063express concern over the \u200dABA&#8217;s failure \u200dto \u200ddefend\u200d the rule of \u200blaw when the Biden management allegedly undermined judicial independence\u200c and immigration laws. Furthermore, the senators highlight that the \u200dABA is \u200cout of touch with a majority of Americans, especially on issues \u2062like diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies,\u2064 which they argue do not <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">reflect widespread public\u2063 opinion<\/a>.\u200c <\/p>\n<p>The letter criticizes the\u2062 ABA for not defending\u200b attorneys caught in legal battles related to \u200cthe Trump administration and for their partisan \u200bstance on various \u2062issues. the\u2063 lawmakers portray the \u200dABA as a deeply biased body, advocating for \u2064its removal from\u2063 the judicial nomination \u200bprocess entirely.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/american-bar-association\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Bar Association<\/a> has long been a hive of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/18\/american-bar-association-requiring-all-law-schools-to-push-dei-displacing-constitutional-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leftist thought and activism<\/a>. But while the nearly 150-year-old &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/news\/abanews\/aba-news-archives\/2023\/11\/new-aba-profile-report-highlights-civil-legal-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">national voice for the legal profession&rdquo;<\/a> claims it&rsquo;s comitted to to &ldquo;defending liberty and pursuing justice,&rdquo; it fails on both counts. The ABA has stood silent as far-left allies weaponized the government against their political enemies, and it has rallied around discriminatory policies in the name of &ldquo;social justice.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now a group of lawmakers led by Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., is urging Senate colleagues to &ldquo;disregard ABA recommendations on pending legislation or nominees.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is a failed institution that is incapable of impartially rating nominees and making legislative recommendations,&rdquo; states a letter from six conservative senators to American Bar Association President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/groups\/leadership\/aba_officers\/bay-william\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">William R. Bay.&nbsp;<\/a> &ldquo;As such, we will not consider any ABA recommendations on pending legislation or nominees, and we call upon our colleagues to do the same.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The letter, first obtained by The Federalist, is signed by Schmitt and fellow senators Mike Lee, R-Utah, Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio. It hammers a hypocritical legal association that has been on a crusade against Trump 2.0 for what the ABA bills as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/news\/abanews\/aba-news-archives\/2025\/02\/aba-supports-the-rule-of-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;wide-scale affronts of the law,&rdquo;<\/a> even as it cheered on President Trump&rsquo;s leftist predecessors for trampling the Constitution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Because it is a &ldquo;biased and ideologically captured institution,&rdquo; the senators assert the ABA has &mdash; in legal parlance &mdash; no standing in advising Congress, particularly in its ratings on judicial nominees and pending legislation. The lawmakers also are calling on the president and the Department of Justice &ldquo;to remove the ABA from the judicial nomination process entirely.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the letter notes, for more than 70 years the ABA has played a role in rating judicial nominees, evaluating candidates as &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/trump-american-bar-association-judicial-nominating-process\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Qualified or Not Qualified.&rdquo;<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As we saw during the Biden Administration, the ABA&rsquo;s ratings were little more than political endorsements for the most radical, left wing partisans,&rdquo; the senators argue. &ldquo;The ABA endorsed patently unqualified judicial nominees as &lsquo;Qualified&rsquo; or &lsquo;Well Qualified&rsquo; time and time again&mdash;including nominees that were so partisan that even the Democrat majority in the Senate could not confirm them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;It is Questionable&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>In a series of grandstanding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postregister.com\/businessreport\/government\/the-aba-rejects-efforts-to-undermine-the-courts-and-the-legal-profession\/article_47f0f9c4-07e7-55ea-9b29-2f3550a4d6df.html?mode=comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">op-eds,<\/a> the left-wing organization has lashed out at the Trump administration, gassing on about &ldquo;defending judges and the courts &hellip; Adhering to the Rule of Law, and Respecting the Separation of Powers and the three co-equal branches of government with distinct duties and responsibilities.&rdquo; The ABA&rsquo;s Bay has pontificated at length on the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/news\/abanews\/aba-news-archives\/2025\/03\/aba-rejects-efforts-to-undermine-courts-and-legal-profession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">values that guide us.&rdquo;<\/a> As the senators note in their letter, the ABA has trampled on those same alleged values and principles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The organization has railed and fought against the administration&rsquo;s attempts to trim the fat from a bloated federal bureaucracy through the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. In particular, the ABA has sprung to the defense of the criminally wasteful <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/25\/usaid-in-egypt-had-me-detained-for-walking-in-and-asking-if-its-following-trumps-orders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Agency for International Development <\/a>(USAID). The agency has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/26\/exclusive-usaid-blew-hundreds-of-thousands-in-taxpayer-slush-funds-on-ukrainian-pickle-maker-pet-accessories\/\">dumped billions<\/a> of taxpayer dollars into suspect-at-best foreign aid initiatives. Last month, the ABA rejoiced in winning a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/news\/abanews\/aba-news-archives\/2025\/02\/aba-files-legal-challences-against-federal-govt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> temporary restraining order <\/a>against the administration&rsquo;s move to cut the funding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The actions of the president and other executive branch officials to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which was established by Congress to administer billions of dollars of foreign assistance funding, is unprecedented,&rdquo; Bay said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/news\/abanews\/aba-news-archives\/2025\/02\/aba-files-legal-challences-against-federal-govt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ABA lawyers have good reason to fight so hard for USAID. As the senators note in the letter, the association has failed to disclose that it has &ldquo;received millions of dollars in funding from USAID.&rdquo; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/recipient\/defa1d0f-b731-752c-7110-465ba924bf2f-C\/latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">federal spending database <\/a>shows the ABA has raked in more than $18 million over the past two decades. That represents about 46 percent of the total $39.4 million federal funding the Bar has grabbed between fiscal years 2008 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is questionable whether the ABA is committed to defending liberty or its own sources of funding,&rdquo; the senators write. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Cover for the Biden Administration&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>While Bay and the ABA lecture on the rule of law and protecting the courts, the senators ask where was the Bar when the Biden administration was attacking both. As Biden rolled out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/07\/16\/biden-supreme-court-reforms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;a major initiative limiting&rdquo;<\/a> the Supreme Court and his fellow Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/nation-world\/democrats-renew-push-to-expand-supreme-court-roe-v-wade-decision-presidential-immunity-chevron-deference-politics-congress-court-packing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pushed to pack it,<\/a> the ABA hosted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/groups\/law_students\/resources\/podcast\/court-packing-explained-todd-berger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">podcast musing<\/a> about how doing so &ldquo;could actually bring balance&rdquo; to the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n<p>Curiously, the Illinois State Bar Association in a 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isba.org\/sections\/bench\/newsletter\/2018\/05\/theabasroleinprotectingjudicialindependence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> lauded the ABA for sending &ldquo;some of its best lawyers in Washington to help those fighting against [President Franklin Delano Roosevelt] FDR&rsquo;s plan&rdquo; to pack the courts to preserve his New Deal agenda. The times sure have changed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When constitutionalist Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/supreme-court\/man-gun-arrested-justice-kavanaughs-residence-rcna32535#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20%E2%80%94%20An%20armed%20man%20was,pepper%20spray%20and%20burglary%20tools.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">targeted by a would-be assassin <\/a>following incendiary leftist rhetoric, and when pro-abortion radicals fired off <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/19\/supreme-court-justices-get-around-the-clock-home-security-amid-threats\/\">death threats<\/a> against conservative justices after the court tossed out <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, the ABA &ldquo;was silent, opting, instead, to cover for the Biden administration by targeting <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2023\/08\/10\/aba-house-of-delegates-adopts-resolution-opposing-single-judge-divisions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">single judge divisions<\/a>,&rdquo; the senators note.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the association cared about the rule of law, the letter argues, it would have been as vociferous when Biden defied the Supreme Court&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2023\/06\/supreme-court-strikes-down-biden-student-loan-forgiveness-program\/\">ruling<\/a> striking down his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawsuit-offers-scotus-a-chance-to-smack-down-bidens-unconstitutional-student-loan-bailout\/\" title=\"...suit Offers SCOTUS A Chance To Smack Down Biden\u2019s \u2018Unconstitutional\u2019 Student Loan Bailout\">unconstitutional student loan bailout<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Supreme Court tried to block me from relieving student debt. But they didn&rsquo;t stop me. I&rsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-mocked-for-touting-justice-for-trump-while-ignoring-supreme-court\/\" title=\"Criticism of Biden for prioritizing ... for Trump over Supreme Court issues\">ve relieved student debt<\/a> for over 5 million Americans. I&rsquo;m going to keep going,&rdquo; Biden declared in open defiance of the third branch&rsquo;s authority &mdash; and crickets from the ABA.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The Supreme Court tried to block me from relieving student debt. But they didn&rsquo;t stop me.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve relieved student debt for over 5 million Americans. I&rsquo;m going to keep going. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m1yh6lYGph\">pic.twitter.com\/m1yh6lYGph<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1795969437595500905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>And where was the American Bar Association when the Biden administration was singlehandedly obliterating U.S. immigration law? As the senators note, Trump&rsquo;s predecessor spent four years lawlessly driving &ldquo;mass illegal immigration policies&rdquo; in defiance of &ldquo;Congress&rsquo; explicit demands&rdquo; that the executive branch enforce the Immigration and Nationality Act.<\/p>\n<h2>Double Standard<\/h2>\n<p>Most significantly, the senators assert, the ABA was nowhere to be found as the Biden Department of Justice was engaging in the &ldquo;unprecedented lawfare campaign&rdquo; against the left&rsquo;s No. 1 political enemy, Donald Trump.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/news\/abanews\/aba-news-archives\/2025\/03\/aba-rejects-efforts-to-undermine-courts-and-legal-profession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">screed<\/a> attacking Trump, the ABA&rsquo;s president self-righteously insisted his organization rejects &ldquo;the notion that the government can punish lawyers who represent certain clients or punish judges who rule certain ways.&rdquo; The senators call B.S.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If the ABA &lsquo;reject[ed] the notion that the government can punish lawyers who represent certain clients,&rsquo; then it would have stood up for the scores of attorneys who found themselves on the wrong side of the Biden Administration&rsquo;s lawfare campaign against President Trump and anyone who dared defend him and advance his legal arguments in court,&rdquo; the letter argues.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Say their names, ABA: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/11\/27\/constitution-scholar-lawfare-punishing-me-for-advising-trump-will-cost-me-3-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Eastman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/06\/leftist-wisconsin-ag-just-cant-quit-his-phony-fake-electors-witch-hunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kenneth Chesebro<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/06\/leftist-wisconsin-ag-just-cant-quit-his-phony-fake-electors-witch-hunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Troupis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/02\/the-lefts-phony-fake-electors-crusade-ramps-up-as-2024-election-draws-closer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christina Bobb<\/a>,&nbsp;Republican attorneys general, and many others. The leftist association has, not surprisingly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/meet-ken-chesebro-the-brains-behind-trumps-fake-elector-scheme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">echoed the Democratic Party&rsquo;s talking points<\/a> in amping up the lawfare campaign against Trump and his representatives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;ABA Does not Speak for a Majority of Americans&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Not only is the ABA partisan, it is deeply out of touch with the electorate, the senators contend. In his op-ed, Bay arrogantly insists that &ldquo;Americans expect better&rdquo; than the policies Trump has pursued.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But President Trump won both the electoral and popular votes. It seems Americans expect &mdash; and want the Trump administration,&rdquo; the letter challenges, adding that the ABA &ldquo;disrespects the 77 million Americans who happily voted for President Trump by branding &lsquo;Americans&rsquo; as only those individuals who align with the ABA&rsquo;s views. The ABA does not speak for a majority of Americans.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_b6537968-dff2-11ef-b274-9fbf7250bf7f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Polling<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/lifestyle\/general_lifestyle\/march_2024\/the_more_americans_know_about_dei_the_more_they_hate_it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shows<\/a> that a majority of Americans do not align with the Bar&rsquo;s views on forced and divisive &ldquo;diversity, equity, and inclusion&rdquo; policies. As the senators&rsquo; letter notes, the ABA has endorsed everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/16-273_bsac_human_rights_watch.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">men competing in women&rsquo;s sports<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/aba-strikes-minority-of-color-clerkship-criteria-amid-lawsuit-threat-2024-10-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pushing racial quota<\/a>s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As attorney W. Dyer Halpern opined last year in The New York Post, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/30\/opinion\/dei-is-coming-for-lawyers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DEI is coming for lawyers<\/a>. He noted the ABA&rsquo;s 2022 mandate requiring member attorneys take the woke training.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;New York&rsquo;s mandatory DEI trainings are purveying the same rank racial ideology found in our universities. These &lsquo;educational&rsquo; sessions teach that the profession has been corrupted by white people, and that white supremacist culture must be actively routed out of the practice of law to make progress,&rdquo; Halpern wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Ideologically Captured&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson recently announced a new policy barring FTC political appointees from holding leadership roles in the ABA, participating in association events, or renewing their ABA memberships. And the independent federal agency will no longer cover Bar memberships or participation in ABA activities for FTC staff members.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/system\/files\/ftc_gov\/pdf\/aba-letter_ferguson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a> last month to FTC employees, Ferguson noted the &ldquo;cozy relationship&rdquo; between federal antitrust enforcers and the private antitrust bar &mdash; &ldquo;facilitated by the Antitrust Law Section of the American Bar Association &ldquo; The ABA&rsquo;s history of leftist advocacy and attacks on the Trump administration &ldquo;have made this relationship untenable,&rdquo; Ferguson wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The senators praised Ferguson&rsquo;s actions, urging more administrative agencies to follow his lead.&nbsp;In short, the lawmakers contend, there is no saving the ABA from its deep leftist biases.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Unfortunately, the ABA has shown itself to be an ideologically captured, leftist institution, as many warned in the first Trump Administration,&rdquo; the letter charges.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ABA, a long-time hub of leftist activism, fails to defend liberty and justice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2411865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/American_Bar_Association_14325372612.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[51847,3709,3634],"class_list":["post-2411864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-leftist-aba","tag-senators","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/American_Bar_Association_14325372612.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411868,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411864\/revisions\/2411868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2411865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}