Education Department staff on Friday suggested ending the American Bar Association’s ability to oversee law school programs across the country amid fierce Republican criticism of the organization.

The association has had government approval to oversee law schools since 1952, but agency staff said its next renewal bid should be denied because of alleged conflicts of interest. The association was last approved to accredit nearly 200 law schools in 2021, with its oversight authority up for review next month.

The recommendation marks a major development in President Donald Trump’s efforts to reshape the college oversight system, which he has criticized as too liberal. Critics fear this will politicize the accreditation process, but the department’s skepticism of close relationships between accreditors and trade associations is shared across the political aisle.

Accreditors are the nongovernmental agencies tasked with reviewing educational quality. For freestanding law schools that aren’t affiliated with a university, the ABA determines if the school can accept federal student aid.

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[–] 52 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Next, they should strip the American Medical Association from any oversight of Medical training! America needs more free thinking, people with free smarts, not educated people smarts! .......... / s

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    In the words of Doctor Trager:

    This patient also, unfortunately, didn't make it. I tried my best, but I'm just a doctor, not a miracle-worker. And I'm pretty new to this whole "doctor" thing, so I'm still working out all the kinks.

    I've managed to slim back personnel by more than eighty people. Which means short term savings in salary and long term savings in pension and health care costs.

    AND I've been figuring out a lot about biology. I was on the fence about it before, but now I can say with absolute certainty that a person can't live without his kidneys. You learn something new every day.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    There are a number of shady "Christian law schools" that will benefit.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago

    Didn't disbar any of Trump's problematic attorneys and still got the can. Not rocking the boat doesn't work with narcissists or bullies.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    Of course, MAGA always takes the most unethical position.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    LOL, the little babies are butthurt that some of the assholes that worked for donnie may be disbarred.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Trump administration recommends legalizing crime

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    Pissing off the lawyers is what started the French Revolution.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    First they came for the FDA meat inspectors, and I said nothing, because I was not an FDA meat inspector (and because I had recently been hospitalized with explosive diarrhea)

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Will go after APA next.

    American psychology association that accredits schools for therapists.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Has the Bar Association tried sending a STERNLY WORDED LETTER that if Trump continues to Misbehave they MAYBE MIGHT POSSIBLE will send ANOTHER Letter? That's PROBABLY the Best way to go about this! OTHERWISE they might have to Treat these people like POORS and JAIL them when they Ignore the Courts!

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Worst idea ever. They are creating a nightmare state.

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    [–] 20 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    That's all we need is millions of unqualified lawyers practicing law. Sure this won't bite us in the ass /s.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (11 children)

    In Act 4, Scene 2 of Henry VI, Part 2, Dick the Butcher utters the line "The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers" during a rebellion led by Jack Cade.

    Cade, a pretender to the throne, hopes to destabilize the existing social order and the line serves as a recognition that lawyers are impediments to his rule. It's a widely misinterpreted line that's usually used to express anti-lawyer sentiment.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago* (8 children)

    Everyone hates lawyers for good reason. Idk what shakespear did about them, but this isn't 1200 ad or whatever, this is 2026, and at least 90 percent of all lawyers at best should be sent to work camps on the north slope of Alaska building public housing for the fucking Inuit, they are parasites, a drain on society, they comprise over 90 percent of future lawmakers, and the worst and most craven and unpatriotic of them will become judges and prosecutors.

    That said, obviously the administration is trying to cement control and getting rid of the bar would allow them to subordinate the legal system, making it impossible to stay in the club if you go against powerful interests. Making it impossible for there to be consequences for powerful interests' lawyers that break the rules themselves and behave like the trecherous cunts they are.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    they are parasites, a drain on society, they comprise over 90 percent of future lawmakers, and the worst and most craven and unpatriotic of them will become judges and prosecutors.

    And if you find yourself in a court room accused of something you are going to be desperate for one to help you.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Because of lawyers we are desperate for lawyers yes. Rather circular logic if you ask me but you guys like to repeat that in defense of your parasite lawyer class that is hired by the oligarchy to overthrow the republic and enslave us all.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Your alternative is, what, mob justice? Government fiat? Anarchy?

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    My alternative is the only one that will save us, razing and burning the legal system, then growing a new one in a restoration the law in the charred wreckage.

    Obviously the razing and burning needs to go well beyond the legal system. And of course I am speaking figuratively and advocating for such things with due process of law.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    So kill all the lawyers, and then... train more lawyers?

    Yes, this is rational.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Well my vote is for work camps in Alaska building public housing for the inuit, (the melting permafrost has destabalized the foundations of their buildings,) as I am against the death penalty as excercized by the state especially.

    Is it more rational to let yourself be enslaved to a corrupt oligarchy that seized control of your courts to overthrow liberal democracy? Yeah you are the rational one clearly, rational as far as you can stretch your hand from your face, you can't see past that apparently.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    This is Stephen Miller bullshit. Fuck that guy.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Or you could fuck stephen miller's wife like Steve Bannon has done, and Eric Swalwell, and others.

    Stephen Miller is a fucking cuck, I normally don't use that word, (only because the right has overused it,) but I am making an exception in his case.

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