Posted on 02/22/2025 4:40:40 PM PST by Libloather
The American Bar Association (ABA) has voted to suspend its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) standard for law schools as the Trump administration looks to gut all programs and initiatives associated with DEI within the federal government.
The council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted to pause its current standard, known as Rule 206, until Aug. 31 while it reviews a proposed revision to the rule, according to the ABA Journal. The vote took place at the council’s quarterly meeting in San Antonio Friday.
The council's standards committee said it would assess the proposed changes in light of recent actions by the Trump administration to ensure it can enforce the standard in compliance with the law.
The Trump administration has threatened cuts in federal funding for academic institutions and universities that continue with DEI programs. Trump has also issued executive orders to target DEI in the federal government and private sector.
Daniel Thies, chair-elect of the council and co-chair of its Strategic Review Committee, said the move to suspend the standard was necessary.
"The committee’s view is that with the executive orders and the law being in flux, it would be an extreme hardship for law schools if our standards were to require them to do certain things that may cause them to take more litigation risks and potentially violate the law," Thies said, according to the ABA Journal.
Members of the council’s managing director’s office will visit law schools this spring and provide written guidance, the ABA Journal reported.
Attorney General Pam Bondi hailed the decision as a "victory for common sense."
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They still hate whitey but they can’t do anything about it any more.
Still not joining or sending money, but good for them this one time.
What does Jackie Chan have to say about this?
I stopped being an ABA member when ABA started supporting abortion.
Yep. They had one pro-life token president back 20 or so years ago. The membership telemarketer tried to sell me on that point. I said I’m a gun owner and will reconsider only after they take a pro Second Amendment stance. Never happened.
How about doing that to Medical Schools?
If there is no money to gain from it, the average lawyer is not going to support it. TANSTAAFL.
they are lawyers
make a big announcement
then keep doing the same thing
under a different name
So they say, after all, many of them are accomplished liars.
Yes, medical schools and others. Backstory is Trump plans to get ABA out of reviews of law schools, judges and is going to clean out the woke accreditors across the board …
Trump has already put ABA on notice that he’s likely to kick them out of accreditation… similar nods to most of the other ‘woke mind virus’ agencies, too (hopefully medical).
I dont understand why there are not more lawsuits against DEI. Its highly discrimanatory and illegal.
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