司法部副部长乔纳森·贝里称，美国最大的律师协会声称保持中立，却在掩盖自由派观点
作者：阿什利·奥利弗
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更新时间：2026年2月9日 美国东部时间上午11:15
福克斯新闻首发：劳工部最高律师周一下令其员工以官方身份停止与美国律师协会（ABA）接触，称该组织参与自由派激进活动，任何联邦层面的参与只会增强其影响力。
据福克斯新闻数字版审阅的电子邮件副本显示，由特朗普任命的副部长乔纳森·贝里在邮件中写道，劳工部的数百名律师不得使用纳税人资金参加任何美国律师协会活动，也不得在活动中使用其政府头衔。
贝里写道：“美国律师协会在意识形态立场上策略性地含糊其辞。”“所谓的‘中立’体现在它有时宣称无意识形态，但在其他时候却持有明显激进的意识形态立场。”
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2025年9月8日，华盛顿特区劳工部总部外悬挂着一面巨大的美国国旗。（塞拉尔·居内斯/阿纳多卢通讯社/盖蒂图片社）
他的这封电子邮件标志着特朗普政府削弱美国律师协会（该国最大的律师及法律专业人士协会）的最新举措。
司法部去年已实施类似政策，并终止了向美国律师协会项目提供的超过300万美元联邦拨款，后一名联邦法官裁定终止拨款违宪。联邦贸易委员会同样切断了与美国律师协会反垄断部门的联系，称该部门“推崇大型科技企业的商业利益”。
共和党长期以来一直指责美国律师协会宣扬与民主党立场一致的观点，且其在法律界的机构存在对保守派不利。美国律师协会官网称自己是“法律界的全国性声音”，并展示了支持“男女同性恋、双性恋、变性者和酷儿（LGBTQ+）”权益倡议、堕胎权利、更严格枪支管控措施以及多元化、公平与包容政策的工作内容。
2010年8月9日，加利福尼亚州旧金山，美国律师协会代表大会上，最高法院大法官露丝·巴德·金斯伯格发表讲话。（贾斯汀·沙利文/盖蒂图片社）
美国律师协会还对唐纳德·特朗普总统持反对立场，谴责其总统在任期间的“大规模践踏法治行为”。
美国律师协会拥有巨大影响力，在联邦法官提名、诉讼参与以及整个法律行业招聘过程中均有发言权。该协会的一个部门还负责法学院认证。
与长达数十年的惯例相反，司法部长帕姆·邦迪去年告知美国律师协会，司法部将不再在司法提名人选公布前向其通报相关信息，剥夺了美国律师协会提前对提名人选进行评级的能力。
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2025年6月18日，乔纳森·贝里在参议院确认听证会上作证。（汤姆·威廉姆斯/CQ-Roll Call公司/盖蒂图片社）
贝里在给员工的邮件中写道，劳工部律师参与美国律师协会活动只会认可他所认为的机构性问题。
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贝里写道：“我们的律师参与美国律师协会项目中雇主律师活动确实有实际益处，但这种益处也确实助长了问题：我们参与‘中立’的美国律师协会活动，为其提升了机构地位，而美国律师协会则利用这种地位将其激进目标伪装成‘中立’立场推进。”“这种情况将不再发生。”
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Labor Department orders lawyers to cut ties with ABA, slams group as ‘radical’ activist force
Solicitor Jonathan Berry says the nation’s largest lawyers association claims to be neutral while masking liberal views
By Ashley Oliver
Fox News
Published February 9, 2026 11:15am EST
FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Labor’s top lawyer ordered staff on Monday to stop engaging with the American Bar Association in their official capacities, saying the organization partakes in liberal activism and that any federal participation would only boost its influence.
Trump-appointed Solicitor Jonathan Berry wrote in an email that the hundreds of attorneys at the Department of Labor are not to use taxpayer funds to participate in any ABA events or use their government job titles at them, according to a copy of the email reviewed by Fox News Digital.
“The ABA is strategically equivocal about its ideological stance,” Berry wrote. “Equivocal in that the ABA holds itself out as non-ideological at certain times, but takes decidedly radical ideological positions at others.”
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A large U.S. flag is seen on the facade of the Department of Labor headquarters in Washington, D.C., Sept. 8, 2025.(Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)
His email marks the latest step in the Trump administration’s effort to weaken the ABA, the nation’s largest association of lawyers and other legal personnel.
The Department of Justice implemented a similar policy last year and terminated more than $3 million in federal grants to ABA programs before a judge found that ending the funds was unconstitutional. The Federal Trade Commission likewise severed its ties with the ABA’s antitrust arm, saying it “promotes the business interests of Big Tech.”
Republicans have long argued the ABA promotes Democrat-aligned viewpoints and that its institutional presence in the legal world is a disadvantage to conservatives. The ABA’s website touts that it is the “national voice of the legal profession” and showcases work that includes support for “LGBTQ+” initiatives, abortion access, stricter gun control measures, and diversity, equity and inclusion.
Delegates look on as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks during the American Bar Association House of Delegates meeting Aug. 9, 2010, in San Francisco, California.(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
The ABA has also taken a stance against President Donald Trump, condemning what its president described as the administration’s “wide-scale affronts to the rule of law.”
The ABA wields enormous power, weighing in on nominations of federal judges, engaging in litigation and involving itself in the hiring processes across the legal industry. One arm of the ABA also handles law school accreditation.
In a reversal of a decades-long practice, Attorney General Pam Bondi told the ABA last year that the DOJ would not give the association a heads up on judicial nominees before they are announced, stripping the ABA of the ability to rate the nominees in advance.
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Jonathan Berry testifies during his Senate confirmation hearing on June 18, 2025.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images))
Berry wrote in his email to staff that the Labor Department lawyers’ participation in the ABA would only serve to endorse what he viewed as an institutional problem.
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“There is genuine benefit to our attorneys engaging with the employer bar in ABA programs, but the benefit genuinely feeds the problem too: Our participation in ‘neutral’ ABA events contributes to institutional stature the ABA leverages to advance radical goals as if they were ‘neutral,’” Berry wrote. “No more.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the ABA for comment.
Ashley Oliver is a reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business, covering the Justice Department and legal affairs. Email story tips to ashley.oliver@fox.com.
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