The New York City Bar Association joined a group of dozens of bar and other legal associations across the country to condemn Trump's orders targeting law firms, arguing that they violate fundamental principles of our legal system and undermine the right to counsel.
"The order declared that 'influential institutions of American society' are using 'dangerous, demeaning and immoral race- and sex-based preferences under the guise of so-called 'diversity, equity and inclusion.'"