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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Trump’s crackdown on lawyers shows ‘no place is immune’, says US bar chief

Michelle Behnke, dressed in a dark suit, stands in front of a brick wall
Michelle Behnke, the president of the American Bar Association, said international support for its lawsuit was ‘very comforting’. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

The Trump administration’s crackdown on lawyers it does not like is something people thought “could never happen in the United States”, the president of the American Bar Association (ABA) has said.

In an interview with the Guardian, Michelle Behnke, who was in London for a gathering on the safety and protection of lawyers, said the ABA was used to dispensing advice to associations in other countries but the tables had turned to an extent.

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