{"id":122715,"date":"2025-06-10T19:39:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/10\/read-the-letter-aba-asks-bondi-to-remove-block-on-judicial-vetting-end-deeply-disturbing-policy-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T19:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:39:29","slug":"read-the-letter-aba-asks-bondi-to-remove-block-on-judicial-vetting-end-deeply-disturbing-policy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/10\/read-the-letter-aba-asks-bondi-to-remove-block-on-judicial-vetting-end-deeply-disturbing-policy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the Letter: ABA Asks Bondi to Remove Block on Judicial Vetting, End ‘Deeply Disturbing’ Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It is deeply disturbing that the Justice Department has decided to restrict access to judicial nominees without justification or basis,” American Bar Association President William Bay wrote in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.<\/p>\n

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The American Bar Association in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday asked the Justice Department head to reconsider her recent decision ending the ABA\u2019s seven-decade privilege of evaluating federal judicial nominees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe ABA is both surprised and disappointed that the Justice Department has decided for the first time in 72 years to (a) block access by the Standing Committee to judicial nominees and (b) to restrict access of the Standing Committee to information that is relevant in evaluating judicial nominees,\u201d ABA President William R. Bay wrote in his letter to Bondi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“It is deeply disturbing that the Justice Department has decided to restrict access to judicial nominees without justification or basis,” American Bar Association President William Bay wrote in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The American Bar Association in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday asked the Justice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/legal-news-Mq9bI4.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}