The legal profession’s U.S. governing body says President Donald Trump’s decrees and actions since the inauguration are “wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself.” In a statement posted on X, the American Bar Association criticised Trump’s plans to end birthright citizenship and dismantle USAID as well as his attempts to criminalize people who work on DEI programs. It also attacked Trump’s refusal to spend money on these programs “under the euphemism of a pause,” which it said was a “violation of the rule of law,” and suggested that Trump was creating a constitutional crisis by overruling Congress and the judiciary. In a lengthy statement which did not mention Trump by name, the ABA also attacked the administration’s use of social media, which it said appears “to be motivated by a desire to inflame without any factual basis. This is chaotic. It may appeal to a few. But it is wrong.” The statement added: “These actions do not make America stronger. They make us weaker... Americans expect better.”
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