Pam Bondi's brother running for DC Bar president
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Anonymous
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No way on Brad Bondi. And Alicia Long, the other candidate, is the assistant to DOJ amoral ideologue Ed Martin who has put out some of the scariest initiatives of the Trump Administration. That's reason enough for DC lawyers to vote for someone smarter and who is a better lawyer and human being.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-allies-bradley-bondi-control-dc-bar-association-rcna195253 Two of President Donald Trump’s allies have launched bids for leadership roles with the D.C. Bar Association, an under-the-radar effort that would give them more control over the influential legal group. The push comes amid bar associations’ confrontations with the Trump administration, and some federal attorneys have looked to their state groups for ethical guidance amid Trump’s rapid reshaping of government. Bradley Bondi — a lawyer who is Attorney General Pam Bondi’s brother — and Alicia Long — a deputy to Ed Martin, Trump’s interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia — are running for president and treasurer. The election runs from April to June, according to the organization’s website. While the general public may not pay much attention to bar associations, lawyers do. The nongovernmental groups decide who gets to be a lawyer — and who gets to stay a lawyer when misconduct allegations are involved. The D.C. Bar, as it is known, has more than 120,000 members, and, by virtue of its location, it is where a significant number of federal attorneys are licensed. The effort to take control of the D.C. Bar follows warnings Trump administration officials have directed at bar associations, which lawyers inside and outside the government have suggested could play a role in slowing down legally questionable elements of Trump’s agenda. On one of her first days as attorney general, Pam Bondi warned career lawyers that they could be fired for refusing to carry out orders because of any personal objections. Meanwhile, the D.C. Bar maintains a confidential legal ethics hotline for members to submit concerns. |
Anonymous
+1. Being admitted in DC for over 20 years and never voted before. I will vote this time for sure, as will my attorney Fed husband |
Anonymous
Ha--that's one way to mobilize the inactive masses--by running two completely objectionable candidates. |
Anonymous
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Yup. Rudy Giuliani got disbarred for acting against professional ethics in defense of Trump (and his own bottom line). If Brad Bondi and Alicia Long get elected, the DC Bar is another institution that would crumble.
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/03/interim-dc-us-attorney-earns-first-professional-misconduct-complaint-on-the-new-job/ Ed Martin’s tenure as the interim DC US Attorney offers no shortage of professional responsibility hypos. He personally dismissed charges against his own client, threatened criminal charges against not one but two legislators for being mean to right-wing figures on TV, pledged to use his office to harass Elon Musk’s critics, retweeted a bonkers Russian conspiracy theory with an implied threat of an investigation, and ran key personnel out of his office by asking them to sign off on baseless investigations. He also omits — erroneously — the “interim” tag on his DC US Attorney title in social media posts that also reveal a shocking lack of basic grammar sense. So it was only a matter of time before the lawyer selected for this job off the strength of riling people up in a “Stop the Steal” lather before January 6 found himself the subject of a disciplinary complaint. For what it’s worth, this is exactly why having the AG’s brother and Martin’s principle deputy in key DC Bar leadership positions would be a problem. Both are running for president and treasurer of the organization respectively. The jobs they seek don’t actually impact disciplinary matters, and as we wrote before — and Brad Bondi’s follow-up statement (now included in the story) supports — there are tons of apolitical reasons to motivate a run for DC Bar jobs. But it looks bad and appearances matter for an organization’s credibility that is tied to public perception. It might not be fair that either candidate loses out over their connections to the administration… but life isn’t always fair. Republicans spent four years wailing like banshees that Joe Biden’s brother and son had jobs while Biden WAS NOT in office! Sometimes family members (and definitely direct reports) have opportunities curtailed by someone else’s ambitions. The letter from the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Democrats includes the aforementioned greatest hits, while adding a new allegation that Martin’s been in contact with and counseling January 6 defendants that he didn’t previously represent, arguably making himself a fact witness in future proceedings. They even called out the grammar screw up in a level of petty that we greatly appreciate here: 19 See e.g., Mr. Martin has used the official Twitter account of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia to describe himself and his colleagues as “President Trumps’ [sic] lawyers” who “fight to protect his leadership as our President…” @USAO_DC (Feb. 25, 2025, 3:18 PM)…. |
Anonymous
| Isn’t this a conflict of interest? |
Anonymous
The entire Trump administration is a big conflict of interest. Hopefully DC lawyers come out and vote en masse. Brad Bondi is awful and will do Pam Bondi's bidding, and she's been a disaster so far as AG. And Alicia Long is Ed Martin's deputy and with all his threats to intimidate and government employees and private citizens, he managed to become the subject of a disciplinary investigation in just 1 month on the job. |
Anonymous
| In this election, Bondi’s brother will be crushed like the cockroach that he is. Unless Elon manipulates the results. Again. |
Anonymous
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Thank you for posting. I would have otherwise missed this. It looks like the election starts on April 15 and runs through June
https://www.dcbar.org/about/who-we-are/leadership/election-process Mark your calendars! |
Anonymous
| Thanks. |
Anonymous
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Definitely voting this year — not for him.
And yes - clear resemblance to the baby dinosaur. |
Anonymous
| When our elections? I need to remember to vote too This year |
Anonymous
Alas, no. |
Anonymous
How would it be? No it is not. |
Anonymous
The Trump administration believes that there is no such thing as a conflict of interest. Which is why DC lawyers need to vote on this. |
Anonymous
Liar. |