Posted on 02/15/2006 9:07:12 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
The ABA orders law schools to practice racial preference--even if they have to break the law.
According to its mission statement, a primary goal of the American Bar Association is to "promote respect for the law." In the interest of mandating racial preferences in admissions, however, the ABA has just ordered law schools to do the opposite--in fact, to violate the law--and is resorting to blackmail to achieve its end.
Meeting in Chicago this past weekend, the ABA's Council of the Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted in favor of "equal opportunity and diversity" standards. Under these standards, any law school that seeks to maintain or acquire ABA accreditation will be required to engage in racial preferences in hiring and admissions, regardless of any federal, state or local laws that prohibit of such policies. Since only graduates of ABA-accredited schools may take the bar exam in the vast majority of states, the association has, in effect, a legal monopoly on accreditation standards.
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"The ABA orders law schools to practice racial preference--even if they have to break the law."
Sounds kind of liberal.
"Sounds kind of liberal."
"We know better than you what is best for you and we will do what we think is best for you whether you like it or not." Yep, it's liberal allright.
Just so everyone knows, the ABA is a private club of liberal lawyers, and states have ceded legal authority to it for law school accreditation.
If schools try to keep the military out because 'don't ask don't tell' is discriminatory towards gays, then what is the course of action towards an ABA-mandated policy that demands discrimination based on race?
Well, if we can just get some Republicans elected to change state law...
Oh wait.
Well, at least they've managed to reduce government spending...
Ah, nevermind.
Membership in the ABA is not mandatory for lawyers and many don't belong to it because of this kind of politically correct nonsense.
"The ABA orders law schools to practice racial preference--even if they have to break the law."
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What?? They're not even going to have an activist judge write a new law from the bench?
Getting bolder and bolder they are.
Which states do not give a legal monopoly to the ABA?
*ping*
bump
"I am right, right?"
Nope, long before you have great grandchildren the white middle class christian male will be eliminated from the face of the earth.
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyersShakespeare
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