Allies of President Trump are attempting a takeover of the D.C. Bar Association as voting ends Wednesday in the election to lead the prestigious organization.
The two-way race for president is between Diane Seltzer and Brad Bondi, the brother of Attorney General Pam Bondi.
It comes at a moment of heightened tension between the White House and the legal profession, which has come under attack by a president unafraid to punish prominent law firms, attack judges and clear house in his own Department of Justice.
The association does not decide attorney discipline matters, but anti-Trump attorneys and pundits are sounding the alarm about what a Make America Great Again takeover would mean for the group, the largest unified bar in the country with roughly 119,000 members.
“Ordinarily, I wouldn’t hold the views or conduct of someone’s relative against them. Indeed, I’m pretty much the last person who should be doing that,” George Conway said in a video published just before voting began, seemingly referencing his ex-wife, Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s former campaign manager and White House counselor.
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