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New in Civitas Outlook: "The End Is Near for the American Bar Association"

"I played a small role in trying to stop the ABA’s collapse, which I have not previously discussed, but now wish to share."

Reason · Sep 1

Federal Trade Commission Staff Endorses Proposal to End American Bar Association Monopoly on Law School Accreditation

FTC staff support the proposal by the Texas Supreme Court to allow for alternative means of accreditation.

Reason · Dec 2, 2025

Trump Administration Likely Violated American Bar Association's First Amendment Rights

A federal court holds that "a series of grants with the ABA that funded services to victims of domestic and sexual violence" were terminated because the ABA had joined a lawsuit against the Administration.

Reason · May 14, 2025

Lack of rural lawyers leaves much of America without support

While the running joke may be that there are too many lawyers in the world, in many rural places in the United States, there are demonstrably too few.

Tribune News Service · Jan 25, 2023

Idaho Supreme Court Rejects Proposed Attorney Speech Code

Resolution 21-01, modeled on the American Bar Association's proposed Rule 8.4(g), would allow lawyers to be punished for "engag[ing] in … harassment," defined as "in representing a client or operating or managing a law practice or in the course and scope of employment in a law practice, engag[ing] in conduct…

Reason · Jan 23, 2023

Public defenders were scarce before COVID. It’s much worse now

PORTLAND, Ore. — On any given day in Oregon jails, 40 or so people remain in custody without a public defender to represent them in court. Some have waited weeks for a lawyer, others have waited months. Several hundred more people charged with crimes but not in jail also await…

Tribune News Service · Jun 21, 2022

Trump-appointed judge becomes hero on the right for her mask ruling

The federal government’s public transportation mask mandate was thrown out by a Trump appointee considered unqualified for the job by the American Bar Association but immediately hailed as a hero in conservative circles.

Tribune News Service · Apr 19, 2022

Mitch McConnell says he will not support Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination – as it happened

Senate Republican leader says he will not back Biden’s nominee as Biden meets Nato and G7 leaders in Europe

The Guardian - US · Mar 24, 2022

Legal experts to weigh in on last day of Jackson hearings

Legal experts and interest groups will be taking their turn to weigh in on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court

The Independent UK · Mar 24, 2022