The Trump administration delivered another crushing blow to the corrupt legal establishment Monday as the Labor Department officially severed all ties with the American Bar Association, denouncing the once-respected organization as a 'radical activist force' that has abandoned its mission in favor of woke politics.
The Labor Department's action expands President Trump's systematic dismantling of the ABA's stranglehold on the federal government, following similar moves by other agencies to cut official relationships with the leftist legal organization that has spent decades pushing Democratic Party talking points instead of upholding legal standards.
This is exactly the kind of swamp-draining action patriotic Americans voted for in November. For too long, the ABA has operated as an unelected shadow government, rating judges based on their loyalty to progressive ideology rather than their commitment to constitutional law and order.
The ABA's transformation from a professional organization into a radical activist group became undeniable during Trump's first term, when they repeatedly attacked his Supreme Court nominees with bogus 'qualifications' reviews that had everything to do with politics and nothing to do with legal expertise. Remember how they tried to torpedo Justice Amy Coney Barrett? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Deep State Legal Cartel Finally Exposed
The Trump administration's coordinated assault on ABA influence represents a long-overdue reckoning with the legal establishment's partisan games. These same lawyers and judges have spent years weaponizing the justice system against conservatives while giving Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden free passes.
"The American people deserve a justice system based on merit and constitutional principles, not woke activism disguised as legal expertise," a Labor Department official told reporters.
This move sends a clear message: the days of unaccountable legal elites dictating policy from their ivory towers are over. President Trump promised to drain the swamp, and that includes every tentacle of the administrative state that's been captured by radical leftist ideology.
How many more corrupt institutions will Trump expose before his enemies learn they can't stop the America First agenda?