{"id":5206,"date":"2025-04-10T21:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T21:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/deputy-ags-memo-bars-justice-department-attorneys-from-aba-event-participation\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T21:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T21:15:09","slug":"deputy-ags-memo-bars-justice-department-attorneys-from-aba-event-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/deputy-ags-memo-bars-justice-department-attorneys-from-aba-event-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy AG&#8217;s Memo Bars Justice Department Attorneys From ABA Event Participation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice will no longer be able to attend, speak at or participate in events the American Bar Association hosts,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/dag\/media\/1396116\/dl?inline\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> according to a memo<\/a> released Wednesday from Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Despite their longstanding relationship, the lawsuit the ABA filed in February against the department in <i>Global Health Council v. Trump <\/i>in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia creates a conflict of interest, Blanche wrote. The memo stressed the importance of administering justice in a &#8220;fair, effective and even-handed manner&#8221; as the overarching purpose for the department&#8217;s decision. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice will no longer be able to attend, speak at or participate in events the American Bar Association hosts, according to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[149,2051,93,3518,462,5463,5464,171,1569,5465],"class_list":["post-5206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-aba","tag-ags","tag-attorneys","tag-bars","tag-department","tag-deputy","tag-event","tag-justice","tag-memo","tag-participation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}