The DSBA Joins the ABA Statement Regarding the Rule of Law

CHICAGO, March 26, 2025 — We the undersigned bar organizations stand together with and in support of the American Bar Association to defend the rule of law and reject efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession.

In particular, as outlined by the ABA:

We endorse the sentiments expressed by the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in his 2024 Year End Report on the Federal Judiciary, “[w]ithin the past year we have also seen the need for state and federal bar associations to come to the defense of a federal district judge whose decisions in a high-profile case prompted an elected official to call for her impeachment. Attempts to intimidate judges for their rulings in cases are inappropriate and should be vigorously opposed.”

We support the right of people to advance their interests in courts of law when they have been wronged. We reject the notion that the U.S. government can punish lawyers and law firms who represent certain clients or punish judges who rule certain ways. We cannot accept government actions that seek to twist the scales of justice in this manner.

We reject efforts to undermine the courts and the profession. We will not stay silent in the face of efforts to remake the legal profession into something that rewards those who agree with the government and punishes those who do not. Words and actions matter. And the intimidating words and actions we have heard and seen must end. They are designed to cow our country’s judges, our country’s courts and our legal profession.

There are clear choices facing our profession. We can choose to remain silent and allow these acts to continue or we can stand for the rule of law and the values we hold dear. We call upon the entire profession, including lawyers in private practice from Main Street to Wall Street, as well as those in corporations and who serve in elected positions, to speak out against intimidation.

If lawyers do not speak, who will speak for our judges? Who will protect our bedrock of justice? If we do not speak now, when will we speak? Now is the time. That is why we stand together with the ABA in support of the rule of law.

For Immediate Release:

March 11, 2025

Today the DSBA’s Executive Committee voted – unanimously – to support the DSBA Corporation Law Section’s request that the Section be authorized under §10.2 of the DSBA’s ByLaws to advocate for a proposed edited version of SB 21 that was approved by the Section yesterday by a vote of 160 to 57.

Unfortunately, there has been some inaccurate and misleading press coverage characterizing the Executive Committee’s action as a “setback.”  The Executive Committee approved the request by the Corporation Law Section without dissent; there was no other request from the Section apart from the one the Executive Committee approved.    Neither the request nor the action to approve the request was “irregular.”  That the press coverage is based on an anonymous source is troubling.  We hope all members of the Delaware Bar will refrain from further advancing this false narrative.