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Affirmative Blackmail
Opinion Journal ^ | 2/15/2006 | David E. Bernstein

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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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aa; aba; abatyranny; affirmativeaction; campus; lawschool; passthebar; racialpreference

1 posted on 02/15/2006 9:07:12 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: Unam Sanctam

"The ABA orders law schools to practice racial preference--even if they have to break the law."

Sounds kind of liberal.


2 posted on 02/15/2006 9:08:18 AM PST by jdm (You can learn a lot about paranoids just by following them around.)
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To: jdm

"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.


3 posted on 02/15/2006 9:10:02 AM PST by L98Fiero
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To: Unam Sanctam

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.


4 posted on 02/15/2006 9:10:11 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: Beelzebubba
I'm looking into my crystal ball, and I'm seeing lots of state legislation allowing people from unaccredited schools to sit for the bar exam, followed by some school policies banning the ABA from campus, citing their endorsement of racist protocols.

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?

5 posted on 02/15/2006 9:16:46 AM PST by cchandler
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To: Unam Sanctam
I have no problem with this or with any other affirmative action program. I am doing well enough now and I am willing to be discriminated against now for the benefit of my great-grandchildren. I just know generations from now, my white, straight, and Christian great-grandchildren will be giving preferential treatment because of the state sponsored discrimination against my generation. I am right, right?
6 posted on 02/15/2006 9:16:50 AM PST by roadking95th
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To: Unam Sanctam
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.

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.

7 posted on 02/15/2006 9:20:20 AM PST by mc6809e
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To: Unam Sanctam

Membership in the ABA is not mandatory for lawyers and many don't belong to it because of this kind of politically correct nonsense.


8 posted on 02/15/2006 9:22:53 AM PST by Spok (Est omnis de civilitate.)
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To: Unam Sanctam

"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.


9 posted on 02/15/2006 9:25:30 AM PST by Stark_GOP
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To: mc6809e

Which states do not give a legal monopoly to the ABA?


10 posted on 02/15/2006 9:50:46 AM PST by TaxRelief (Wal-Mart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: Congressman Billybob

*ping*


11 posted on 02/15/2006 9:53:01 AM PST by TaxRelief (Wal-Mart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: Unam Sanctam

bump


12 posted on 02/15/2006 10:04:53 AM PST by somniferum
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To: roadking95th

"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.


13 posted on 02/15/2006 10:05:58 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("We don't need POLITICIANS...we need STATESMEN.")
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To: Unam Sanctam
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers
Shakespeare

15 posted on 02/15/2006 12:05:46 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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