The
American
Bar
Association
has
come
under
fire
for
requiring
schools
to
put
some
effort
into
making
sure
that
their
student
bodies
don’t
look
like
the
start
of
a
small
ethnostate.
Schools
had
to
show
some
attempt
at
encouraging
diversity
in
recruitment,
admissions,
and
programming.
This
was
a
hard
pill
to
swallow,
especially
for
the
Trump
administration.
After
some
light
pushback,
the
ABA
has
put
a
moratorium
on
the
standard,
citing
the
difficulty
for
schools
to
follow
the
guidelines
without
running
into
legal
trouble
after
SFFA
v.
Harvard.
Given
the
challenges,
the
ABA
has
been
reconsidering
its
standards.
Reuters
has
coverage:
The
American
Bar
Association
will
undertake
a
sweeping
review
of
its
standards
for
law
schools
as
states
weigh
dropping
the
organization
as
an
accreditor
and
critics
blame
its
regulations
for
driving
up
student
costs.
While
there’s
nothing
factually
incorrect
about
the
sentence
above,
the
word
“states”
is
carrying
a
lot
of
weight
here.
It
would
be
one
thing
if
half
of
the
country
was
thinking
about
dropping
the
ABA,
but
it’s
just
Florida
and
Texas.
And
you
know
what
they
say
about
Texas:
Texas
and
Florida
may
be
of
a
mind
to
drop
the
ABA
but
the
problem
is,
again,
the
rest
of
the
country.
The
remaining
48
states
won’t
cede
out
just
because
they
do
—
and
that’ll
make
it
a
lot
harder
for
freshly
minted
Texan
and
Floridian
JDs
to
get
jobs
from
employers
looking
to
hire
accredited
graduates.
Even
if
other
states
are
thinking
about
dropping
the
ABA,
they’d
have
to
come
up
with
their
own
accreditation
process
to
replace
the
job
the
ABA
has
been
doing
well
enough
for
decades
now.
Texas
and
Florida
are
special
cases
in
that
they
are
states
who
would
go
to
lengths
to
keep
the
administration
happy,
but
everyone
else
probably
doesn’t
give
enough
of
a
damn
to
reinvent
the
wheel.
The
committee’s
proposed
elimination
of
the
diversity
and
inclusion
standard
is
the
part
of
the
story
that
actually
has
teeth
to
bite
with.
At
this
point,
just
rip
the
Band-Aid
off.
It’s
been
on
life
support
since
February
and
unless
there
are
going
to
be
some
serious
changes
in
the
Executive
or
the
Judiciary
over
the
next
three
years,
it
is
going
to
be
a
constant
buzzing
in
the
ear.
The
question
of
why
diversity
matters
to
the
ABA
has
been
open
since
February
of
last
year
—
maybe
it’s
time
to
stop
pretending
it’s
an
actual
priority
they
hold
dear.
ABA
To
Review
Law
School
Standards,
May
Drop
Diversity
Rule
Amid
Pressure
[Reuters]
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ABA
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Still
Stumbling
Through
Trying
To
Replace
ABA
Accreditation
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