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Texas SCOTUS says the ABA is no longer the accreditor of law schools in TX

https://x.com/derektmuller/status/1971699487434477626
bloomington
  09/26/25
30 years overdue
excellent subthread
  09/26/25
Here's some comments from a Texas attorneys FB page: Pl...
Keezy
  09/26/25
pretty obviously this: Are there some aspects of ABA accr...
UhOh
  09/26/25


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Date: September 26th, 2025 9:53 PM
Author: bloomington (🦬)

https://x.com/derektmuller/status/1971699487434477626

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780407&forum_id=2)#49306595)



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Date: September 26th, 2025 10:11 PM
Author: excellent subthread

30 years overdue

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780407&forum_id=2)#49306642)



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Date: September 26th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Keezy

Here's some comments from a Texas attorneys FB page:

Plenty of reasonable criticisms can be leveled at the ABA, but something tells me this decision is entirely unrelated to any of those reasons.

Next up: PragerU School of Law. (*only accredited it Texas*)

ABA said they were not going to do away with DEI. That’s how we got here.

The Chief Justice already presides over the attorney grievance committee and we all know that the state struggles with enforcement of state bar rules...

Now we expect our Supreme Court to effectively monitor situations at our state law schools? This is a recipe for disaster

This is actually crazy.

The Supreme Court? I know it says “the,” but which one?

I guess you will soon be able to sit for the bar exam if you get your Google Law Degree? This is absurd!

Honestly... they're are a lot of terrible lawyers and I guess most all went to law schools accredited by the ABA. So it's not like things are perfect now, I'm not going to criticize without knowing more what brought this about.

Supreme Court or Supreme Leader? (Just joking)

I wonder who was asking for this. Are there some aspects of ABA accreditation that the backers of this proposal don’t want Texas schools to have to follow? Do they want to move to a system like California that has ABA schools and non-ABA schools that are only accredited by California and have to pass a separate first year law exam to continue in the non ABA schools (and then will only be eligible to take the California Bar)? And more importantly, who was asking for this? Any backers wanted to start a new law school? I can imagine that the University of Austin might want to eventually start a “conservative” law school to add to their undergraduate program.

Open the floodgates to fraudsters who want to open a law school. Smells like rotten seafood to me.

So the Venn diagram between ABA and SCOTX-approved schools will be a circle?

I'm pretty sure this is going to create problems with reciprocity in states that still require ABA accreditation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780407&forum_id=2)#49306673)



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Date: September 26th, 2025 10:32 PM
Author: UhOh

pretty obviously this:

Are there some aspects of ABA accreditation that the backers of this proposal don’t want Texas schools to have to follow?

texas wants to end DEI, critical theory, affirmative action, etc. this seems like a great way to do it. tx scotus is small and conservative as fuck, it's a lot more efficient than the legislature and university boards. the law schools will have to kneel immediately. if they're not accredited their grads can't get a license in tx (which the court also controls) and they're done.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780407&forum_id=2)#49306679)