“Today, the results of the 2025 DC Bar President-Elect [sic] election were announced and although I did not prevail, I stand with a heart full of gratitude and a mind heavy with concern for the future of the DC Bar. I had hoped this race would be a contest of ideas to enhance services for our widely varied members – a chance to discuss free, on-demand CLEs, instant certificates of good standing, a stronger ethics hotline, and expanded pro bono programs that would unite us in service, from big law to solo practice. Instead, I am disgusted by how rabid partisans lurched this election into the political gutter, turning a professional campaign into baseless attacks, identity politics, and partisan recrimination. Never before has a DC Bar election been leveraged along partisan lines in this way, an explicit call for members to vote based not on what’s best for the institution but their political affiliations. Their tactics, which included smearing me over my family and peddling conspiracies about my intentions, were not just an assault on my integrity but on the DC Bar’s very mission.”
“But by giving in to these partisan impulses, we risk a never-ending cycle of political strong-arming, where every election becomes a proxy for national divides, and the Bar’s unity is fractured beyond repair. I caution that the Bar may never recover from this politicization – a tragedy that would erode its ability to serve as a home for all members, replacing impartiality with ideological litmus tests that alienate and divide. We’ve seen other institutions fall to this temptation, losing their credibility and purpose. The Bar must not follow that path,” wrote scumbag Attorney General Pam Bondi’s brother Brad in a LinkedIn post on Monday after his crushing 91 to 9 percent defeat in the DC Bar election.
The same “partisan impulses” were present in the Project 2025’s manifesto’s views on the Bar Associations, calling for them to be taken over or destroyed. Brad didn’t mention that in his lengthy screed. It’s always the media and the other guys, never them in these pissing matches.