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Posted on 08/22/2026 10:30:38 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin
The U.S. Department of Education on Friday recommended stripping the American Bar Association of its longstanding authority to accredit nearly 200 law schools across the country.
According to a leak, a 500-page staff report concluded that the group is not sufficiently “separate and independent” from the larger ABA, operates like a cartel, and has injected its own political ideology into the process, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Assistant Secretary of Education David Barker put it bluntly: when there’s no competition, “accreditors feel free to inject their own political preferences, their own ideologies into the work that they do.”
The ABA has held a near-monopoly since 1952 over which law schools can access federal student loans and whose graduates can sit for the bar in most states.
This follows years of the ABA pushing illegal DEI mandates on law schools, requirements that forced race-based preferences and “bias, racism, and cross-cultural competency” indoctrination even after the Supreme Court gutted affirmative action.
The Trump administration has been dismantling this rot step by step, and states like Texas and Florida have already moved to sideline the ABA.
... Ferguson accused the ABA, described by Senator Mike Lee as the “lawyer’s wing of the Democratic Party,” of abandoning neutral legal analysis in favor of left-wing political activism.
The ABA has repeatedly clashed with the Trump administration over DEI mandates, judicial nominations, Trump’s executive orders targeting major law firms, and the administration’s efforts to dismantle the federal bureaucracy.
Texas, Florida, and Alabama have already taken steps to reduce the ABA’s power over their attorney-licensing systems, with several states specifically citing the organization’s DEI requirements.
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This has long been needed.
Another simple clarification should be enforced: as Officers of the Court, attorneys should be ineligible to hold elective office - since that constitutes a glaring conflict of interest.
Still no evidence in sight of keeping the campaign promise to abolish the Department of Education.
Promises made, promises broken.
All the administration has to do is send someone to Congress and formally ask for an abolish bill of the 1979 law. But they still will not do it.
The ABA also has a very strong say in the federal judicial nomination process. Totally corrupt medieval guild organization not holding elective office and thus accountable to no one.
The ABA is largely symbolic.
It’s the individual state bars that need to be dealt with.
This might make a great Constitutional amendment.
“corrupt”. David Clements is not wrong.
It was created by an Act of Congress, and can only be eliminated by an Act of Congress. But the Administration has done a good job of shrinking it as much as possible.
There are some states that don’t require a law degree. The ABA still has a death grip on admittance to the bar and setting license requirements.
Much of the law isn’t about the law anymore. Its process and mechanics.
Since judges are from the same pool, it never changes.
All the administration has to do is send someone to Congress and formally ask for an abolish bill of the 1979 law. But they still will not do it.
“Recommendation” sort of like all the referrals that have gone nowhere.
This has long been needed.
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One corrupt agency recommending another corrupt agency not be allowed to endorse law schools. As an attorney I find this hilarious. I dropped the ABA when they decided to abandon their neutral stance on abortion and decided to endorse the murder of children by their mothers as “health care” and “reproductive rights.”
He has a Rumble video account. He’s pretty good.
Awesome news here!
On this related thread from March:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4370563/posts
I’d posted the following which questioned why these people have this much power, to begin with...hope it’s all ended.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4370563/posts?page=6#6
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4370563/posts?page=16#16
You are better than this thin line of reasoning.
No, that's not "all the Administration has to do" to eliminate the DEA. And the Executive Branch sending someone to Congress to "formally ask" for something isn't even a thing. There isn't any such "formal" process. What you've described is just some kind of political grandstanding
What actually needs to happen is an elected member of Congress needs to introduce such a bill. And guess what - that's already been done. H.R. 899. And there aren't the votes in Congress to get it through. The Executive Branch can't pass laws, so the failure to eliminate the DEA is not on them. Nor was it on Reagan, who proposed the same thing.
“that’s already been done. H.R. 899”
I do not think any of us would realistically believe Trump would sign on to the Massie bill, and also Congress as a whole isn’t going to sign on to the Massie bill. Any one of them could have done so before Massie went full Aleksandr Dugin.
So are we stuck with the Department of Education for the rest of our lives?
If Congress will not move first, and if the Trump Administration will not move first, that looks like a negative checkmate to me. Nothing will get done.
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