"The American Bar Association has come under fire for requiring schools to put some effort into making sure that their student bodies don't look like the start of a small ethnostate. Schools had to show some attempt at encouraging diversity in recruitment, admissions, and programming. This was a hard pill to swallow, especially for the Trump administration."
"Texas and Florida may be of a mind to drop the ABA but the problem is, again, the rest of the country. The remaining 48 states won't cede out just because they do - and that'll make it a lot harder for freshly minted Texan and Floridian JDs to get jobs from employers looking to hire accredited graduates."
The American Bar Association is facing pressure to revise law school accreditation standards after its diversity and inclusion requirement drew criticism and legal concerns following SFFA v. Harvard. The ABA placed a moratorium on that standard while reconsidering how schools can encourage diverse student bodies without legal exposure. Florida and Texas have signaled intentions to drop ABA accreditation, prompting a broader review as critics also blame accreditation rules for increasing student costs. Removing or altering the diversity standard could reshape recruitment, admissions, programming, and the labor market for newly graduated JDs in states that dissociate from ABA oversight.
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