The American Bar Association is warning the public about attacks on the rule of law — and suing the Trump administration — following the U.S. president's recent actions to dismantle parts of the federal government.

"No American can be proud of a government that carries out change in this way," the group's president wrote in a searing statement.

The American Bar Association (ABA) issued a statement Tuesday citing concerns with the Trump administration’s comments condemning court orders that blocked some of the president’s executive actions. “These bold assertions,

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.