Wondering what our resident lawyers think.
It is fashionable for Tromp-heavy states to give the finger to the ABA right now — lingering attention to DEI efforts and the Association’s outspoken interest in the rule of law are enough for people to complain about the group’s “political engagement”
He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor
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This is consistent with what I’ve heard about at least one state medical school now refusing to treat transgender patients at all and cancelling contracts with companies that have any gender-related statements on their websites.
I wonder which minority class is next?
I don’t know, but regardless of where anyone sits on the isle, this constant flop flopping of policy between each administration is likely causing major financial headaches for institutions across various industries
I’ve always been of the opinion that if any company/institution is going to do away with DEI, then you also need to do away with nepotism hires
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So, so many things to mock about this. But then I’d get in trouble
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Accrediting is not an easy task. If Texas does it themselves, it’ll be a costly endeavor to do correctly too. Can we set up our own version of AAU, and designate all colleges in Texas as members as well?
The ABA thing is probably not going anywhere due to accreditation concerns out of state.
Most states still require candidates to be graduates of ABA accredited law schools to be eligible to sit for the bar.
So even if TX bar examiners don’t look to the ABA any longer, other states will, and that’s why no Texas law school is likely to abandon its ABA accreditation, even if TX doesn’t require it.
That would make their grads largely unemployable in most other states.
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The country has too many law schools.
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That has always been the case, different administrations change the political landscape. Nothing new. Maybe currently it seems or is more extreme or more widespread, I don’t know that it is for sure. In general though, it isn’t anything new.
It’s not new, but in its current form it is very radical
Historically you had 2 establishment factions:
- Socially conservative and fiscally conservative
- Socially progressive and fiscally conservative
Even despite the disagreements socially, you still had baseline fiscal harmony amongst the 2
However now due to polarization, social media, etc… both establishments have gone further and further the opposite direction
That’s not really true at all. How would you describe, ie, Social Security or Medicare as fiscally conservative? Hell, I’d even describe stuff like the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 as being pretty fiscally liberal. If anything, I think it would be more accurate to say that there wasn’t any real political weight behind the idea of fiscal conservatism until like the Reagan era.
Because Social security and Medicare also benefits white people
What exactly do you think “fiscally conservative” means
You’re now veering into politics and off topic from the law school accreditation
Our economic system is going to have some form of “socialist” elements, such as healthcare. That’s a given.
But as far as social or fiscal progressivism at the expense of white wealth, that’s where things get tricky
The inner city elites (largely white) that claim or vote for support social progress are still not willing to live alongside the people they claim to support, typically disguised as the preservation of neighborhood character
This is off topic and political now. Please end it.
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To be fair, the topic is rooted in this asinine obsession with attaching “DEI” to anything one group doesn’t like. There’s literally no non-political reason behind the ridiculous idea of Texas law schools abandoning the ABA.
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I agree. Though my intention was to discuss the practicality of it or the reality of if it was even possible. Though I didn’t really make that clear in my post.
Abandoning the ABA as a relevant gatekeeper is one thing — there are four states that currently don’t require a law degree at all to take the bar, and I don’t hear a lot of folks complaining about, for example, California having a ton of underqualified lawyers — but I’m not sure there’s really any justification for spinning up your own duplicative accreditation body except for the possibility of wielding accreditation as a cudgel against your political enemies.
And as I said, even if they did, no law school in TX is going to give up its ABA accreditation, simply because that would limit their graduates’ out of state opportunities.
They’ll simply have a TX state accreditation alongside the ABA’s.