American Bar Association blasts Bondi’s decision to block it from judicial nominations: ‘Deeply disturbing’

The American Bar Association asked the Department of Justice on Tuesday to reconsider its historic decision to shut the organization out of the judicial nomination process and insisted it rates potential judges fairly.

ABA President William Bay wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi that he was "surprised and disappointed" by her decision, which Bondi revealed in a letter two weeks ago.

"It is deeply disturbing that the Justice Department has decided to restrict access to judicial nominees without justification or basis," Bay wrote.

Bondi accused the ABA, which comprises hundreds of thousands of lawyers and other legal professionals, of favoring Democratic administrations’ nominees and refusing to "fix the bias in its ratings."

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