In April 2023, I wrote a column for the ABA Journal titled "The ABA needs ideological diversity to ensure its future." I concluded:
If the ABA does not arrest its progressive lurch, the organization risks its own obsolescence. Model Rules will not be adopted. Evaluations of judicial nominees will be ignored. The accreditation monopoly will cease. And so on. A decline in membership will be the least of the ABA's problems. The ABA can either adapt to a new political reality or fade away like the guilds of yore.
Over the following year, I attempted to work within the ABA to reform the organization. I joined a caucus formed to promote viewpoint diversity within the ABA. I even spoke at the Midyear Meeting, where I explained in clear terms how the ABA's fixation on leftist politics and DEI would spell its demise. My remarks were met with shock. I was called a racist and worse. People objected to my presence on the panel. One person in the audience said that she would defend the ABA's DEI efforts till the bitter end, even if she was the last member. She may yet get her wish. For reasons I will discuss more fully another time, I resigned from the Caucus. In short, I thought the ABA was beyond repair, and my time could be spent better doing other things.
