Amid the flurry of lawsuits and hearings surrounding the Trump administration, the American Bar Association -- the country’s largest legal organization -- issued a stark warning Tuesday about the White House’s “wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself.”

“Americans know there is a right way and a wrong way to proceed. What is being done is not the right way to pursue the change that is sought in our system of government,” ABA President William Bay wrote.

The statement noted that lawyers -- who comprise 30 percent of House, more than half of sitting senators, and the vice president -- should remember that while “everything can be more efficient … adherence to the rule of law is paramount."

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous

Trump criticized "certain activists and highly political judges" who he says want to "slow down" or stop his administration's efforts to investigate "FRAUD, WASTE, AND ABUSE."

Trump did not criticize a specific federal judge in his Truth Social post, but it came after he called the blocking of some of his executive actions by court order “bad rulings” in an interview that aired Monday night. It also comes after Vice President JD Vance said on social media that judges "aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power."

Trump added: "Losing this momentum will be very detrimental to finding the TRUTH, which is turning out to be a disaster for those involved in running our Government."

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart

Some 171 staffers are now on administrative leave from the Environmental Protection Agency's teams responsible for diversity, equity and inclusion and environmental justice.

In a Tuesday morning press release, the EPA provided the updated numbers, saying that 11 DEI staff and 160 environmental justice staff have been placed on leave as the agency tries to comply with Trump's DEI executive order.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin took aim at the Biden administration in the announcement, saying, "The previous Administration used DEI and Environmental Justice to advance ideological priorities, distributing billions of dollars to organizations in the name of climate equity."

-ABC News' Kelly Livingston

A union representing nearly 2,000 foreign service officers at the U.S. Agency for International Development said in a court filing that the Trump administration is failing to comply with last week’s temporary restraining order to prevent the dismantling of USAID.

The allegation -- made in an emergency motion on Monday night -- marked the second time the Trump administration attracted criticism for failing to comply with court orders and came amid heightened criticism of the judicial branch from billionaire Trump ally Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance.

The American Foreign Service Association cited multiple examples of employees continuing to be placed on leave and to be locked out of their computers, despite a temporary restraining order Friday preventing the Trump administration from their plan to place 2,200 employees on leave.

"Beyond non-compliance with the TRO, factual developments that occurred immediately before and in the wake of the February 7 hearing also suggest that the government intends to continue taking potentially irreversible actions to dismantle the agency before the Court can adjudicate the lawfulness of those actions," the lawsuit said.

Accusing the Trump administration of continuing to take "immediate, irreparable action to dismantle" USAID, the foreign service union asked for a hearing on Tuesday to ensure the Trump administration complies with the order.

-ABC News’ Katherine Faulders and Peter Charalambous