Reference Message Network reported on June 18th according to a report by Reuters on June 16th, the American Bar Association filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on June 16th, hoping that the court would order to stop the coercive actions taken by the White House against large law firms.
The lawsuit has been submitted to the Federal Court in Washington D.C. The complaint pointed out that the Trump administration violated the U.S. Constitution and targeted the clients of law firms and the lawyers hired by these law firms in a series of executive orders.
William C. Turnipseed, president of the American Bar Association, said in a statement: "The American Bar Association has never faced such an urgent moment when it must uphold its members, uphold our profession, and uphold the rule of law itself."
The American Bar Association has approximately 150,000 paid members and is the largest voluntary organization in the American legal profession.
Previously, four law firms have separately sued the U.S. government over Trump's executive orders. These executive orders deprived the lawyers of these law firms of their security clearance and restricted them from accessing government officials or accepting federal contracts.
Four Washington judges respectively supported the demands of the above-mentioned law firms, temporarily or permanently prohibiting the Trump administration from using executive orders to target these law firms. One of the law firms that sued the government and won preliminary victory served as the agent for the American Bar Association in the lawsuit on June 16th.
White House spokesman Harrison Fields issued a statement saying that the lawsuit filed by the American Bar Association was "obviously boring." Fields pointed out that the President of the United States has broad discretion in awarding contracts and security clearances, and the American Bar Association has no right to interfere.
This case marks the continued escalation of the conflict between the American Bar Association and the Trump administration. The Trump administration has cut some funding for the American Bar Association and tried to limit the role of the American Bar Association in the review of nominations for federal judges. (Translated by Liu Ziyan)
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