Trump administration wants to deny ABA ability to oversee law schools: Report
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The ABA has had the power to accredit nearly 200 law schools over the last 70 years, but this power may come to an end, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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The Trump administration on Wednesday published rules that would open the door for other accreditors to be recognized across American higher education, as Trump himself recognizes that accreditation is the "secret weapon" for controlling universities.
The Trump administration has accused the legal organization of promoting progressive agendas, including pushing law schools to adopt diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
President Trump is trying to take away the American Bar Association’s ability to accredit law schools for being too woke. The ABA is the leading accreditor for almost 200 law schools in the U.S. Without its accreditation, a school’s graduates may not qualify to take the bar exam, and the school itse…
The Trump administration announced Friday it is moving forward with dismantling the American Bar Association’s (ABA) stranglehold on U.S. law schools, which allowed the organization to force left-wing ideologies on legal education at the threat of revoking accreditation.
President Donald Trump and other Republicans have accused the association of liberal bias, promoting DEI and pushing a political agenda in law schools.
The Department of Education has begun the process of removing the American Bar Association’s ability to accredit law schools, though the ABA Accreditation Council emphasizes the move represents only one step in the process.
ED Threatens ABA’s Ability to Accredit Law Schools jessica.blake@… Fri, 08/21/2026 - 05:42 PM The Trump administration accused the accreditor of violating federal requirements in nearly 30 ways. Byline(s) Jessica Blake
The ABA has had the power to accredit nearly 200 law schools over the last 70 years, but this power may come to an end, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The Trump administration's ongoing feud with the American Bar Association has come to a head, as the Education Department threatens to strip the organization of its power to oversee law school programs across the country.
The days of the American Bar Association overseeing the accreditation of law schools may be numbered. The ABA has enjoyed the authority to accredit law schools since 1952. This authority is vested in the ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, which is supposedly ind…
Conservatives point to American Bar Association’s DEI requirements, progressive politics The American Bar Association, which for many years was the lone accreditor of law schools in the U.S., may lose that authority under the Trump administration.
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