The Justice Department is urging the American Bar Association to scrap diversity requirements for law schools or risk losing its accrediting power.
The ABA “has subjected law faculties and law students to unlawful race and sex discrimination under the guise of ‘diversity’ mandates,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a Feb. 28 letter to the organization. “That policy must be repealed immediately.”
The ABA last month said it would temporarily suspend enforcement of a rule requiring law schools to diversify faculty and student populations. The organization has been considering updates to the rule that would force schools to “demonstrate by ...