Lawyers guild's alleged ties to Antifa spark call for DOJ probe

FIRST ON FOX: A Texas Republican politician contacted the Department of Justice on Friday to examine the National Attorney Guild, stating the popular legal group’s activities exceed safeguarding rioters in court and might encompass supporting Antifa-affiliated violence.

Rep. Lance Gooden composed in a letter initially gotten by Fox News Digital to the DOJ that the National Attorney Guild has “close ties with left-wing extremists and domestic terrorist companies like Antifa.”

” The real degree of their participation in arranging attacks within our nation is uncertain, however I am deeply worried that the NLG and its ongoing assistance for Antifa extremists position a direct physical hazard to the lives of civilians and police officers,” Gooden composed, likewise keeping in mind that he desired the DOJ to penetrate the group’s funding.

A DOJ representative validated it got Gooden’s letter however had no more remark. Fox News Digital has actually connected to the National Attorney Guild for remark.

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Gooden’s demand comes as the Trump administration has actually zeroed in on Antifa affiliates. President Donald Trump stated Antifa a “domestic terrorist company” in September, stating the all-black-clad protesters who identify themselves as Antifa members are sustaining anti-law enforcement riots throughout the nation and triggering violence.

The FBI has actually explained Antifa as a decentralized ideology, a function that has actually led critics to state Antifa is not an exact label. The Congressional Research study Service has actually stated Antifa is a broad term which its members have a range of extreme views carefully lined up with anarchism, communism or socialism. The very first group understood to embrace the term Antifa was Rose City Antifa in Portland in 2007. On event, violent crooks have actually been mentioned in court as connecting with Antifa.

FBI Director Kash Patel informed Fox Company today that “yes, Antifa exists” which the bureau has actually introduced examinations throughout the nation into the financing and arranging efforts behind Antifa.

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Portland, Oregon, was rocked by successive nights of riots in 2020, following the death of George Floyd while he remained in cops custody that year. ( Thomas Patterson/ AFP/Getty Images)

Patel’s remarks came right after the DOJ brought terrorism-related charges for the very first time versus offenders that it implicated in an indictment of coming from an “Antifa Cell.” The indictment explained Antifa as a “militant business comprised of networks” and declared the offenders participated in a violent attack on ICE’s Prairieland Detention Center in Texas that left a policeman shot in the neck and injured.

Gooden implicated the National Attorney Guild, which likewise provided legal assistance to offenders implicated of rioting throughout Black Lives Matter demonstrations in 2020, of actively campaigning “versus steps targeted at preserving peace and order.”

” This consists of requiring the abolishment of jails and opposing greater charges for masked rioters who assault individuals for exercising their humans rights,” Gooden composed.

Gooden likewise mentioned a social networks post by independent press reporter Andy Ngo, who shared a video of protesters outside an ICE center in Portland that he stated included National Attorney Guild members sprinkled throughout the crowd.

Fox News Digital spoke with reporter Andy Ngo following his conference about Antifa violence with President Trump in October 2025. ( Fox News Digital)

Another video Ngo shared on Friday included a National Attorney Guild member motivating onlookers to offer her info about individuals who were simply apprehended.

” The NLG is an Antifa legal group that offers assistance to extremists to assist them leave justice,” Ngo composed.

The National Attorney Guild, a longstanding company with countless members, is a 501( c)( 4) and its structure a 501( c)( 3 ), classifications that both receive tax advantages, which Gooden stated warranted a federal probe.

The group self-identifies as progressive and just recently stated its contributions are not utilized to money Antifa since simple concepts can decline cash.

” Antifa is brief for antifascism. Antifascism is a concept and a type of resistance to the ever increasing authoritarianism in the United States,” the group composed on Bluesky on Thursday. “It is not a nationwide company or not-for-profit that takes contributions.”

The group stated antifascists are supporters for individuals “ICE representatives vanish … off the streets.”

” Antifascists are the Stop Police officer City protesters, safeguarding their neighborhoods from the growth of cops training premises,” it continued. “Antifascists are those that appear to object the National Guard, attacking their city.”

The National Attorney Guild’s remarks get at the heart of an underlying complimentary speech dispute, as First Change promotes raise cautions about the Trump administration targeting individuals who verbally support Antifa or antifascism however stay tranquil.

Hina Shamsi of the American Civil Liberties Union stated when Trump called Antifa a domestic terrorist company that he was intruding on individuals’s complimentary speech rights.

” President Trump appears hellbent on targeting genuine or viewed political challengers based upon their constitutionally secured beliefs and speech, and we need to all be really clear that he is threatening everybody’s First Change rights,” Shamsi stated.