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American Bar Association votes to eliminate DEI rule for law schools (Reuters)
American Bar Association votes to eliminate DEI rule for law schoolsReuters (on their own site)
May 15 (Reuters) - A longstanding diversity and inclusion requirement for U.S. law schools is teetering amid mounting pressure from the Trump administration and Republican states.
The American Bar Association council that oversees law school accreditation voted on Friday to eliminate a rule that requires law schools to demonstrate their commitment to diversity in recruitment, admissions, and student programming.
The rule has been suspended since February 2025, after Republican President Donald Trump returned to the White House and began cracking down on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
"Even though I personally agree with [the diversity and inclusion standard] and what it tries to achieve, I think it's appropriate as an accrediting body that we eliminate that standard so we don't inhibit the diversity of ideas out there in various types of legal education environments," said David Brennen, a council member and a former dean of the University of Kentucky College of Law.
The change would not become final until the ABA's House of Delegates begins to consider it as early as August and then debates revisions. That approval process could push the diversity rule's elimination to sometime in 2027.
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The American Bar Association council that oversees law school accreditation voted on Friday to eliminate a rule that requires law schools to demonstrate their commitment to diversity in recruitment, admissions, and student programming.
The rule has been suspended since February 2025, after Republican President Donald Trump returned to the White House and began cracking down on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
"Even though I personally agree with [the diversity and inclusion standard] and what it tries to achieve, I think it's appropriate as an accrediting body that we eliminate that standard so we don't inhibit the diversity of ideas out there in various types of legal education environments," said David Brennen, a council member and a former dean of the University of Kentucky College of Law.
The change would not become final until the ABA's House of Delegates begins to consider it as early as August and then debates revisions. That approval process could push the diversity rule's elimination to sometime in 2027.
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Caving in or just kicking it down the road? Either way, I'm a bit surprised at the ABA doing this.
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so we don't inhibit the diversity of ideas out there in various types of legal education environments
Yeah, there's a broad range of ideas, like some people believe that black people are not fit for legal education, or that women should not involve themselves in legal affairs. We certainly wouldn't want to reduce the diversity of ideas in the legal education environment!
It doesn't matter what you "personally believe," David Brennan, you fucking tool, you fucking fascist shitbag. It matters - as always - what you actually fucking DO.
