The American Bar Association’s “Diversity” Agenda Endangers the Integrity of the Legal Profession Says The Heritage Foundation

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SUMMARY

The American Bar Association’s new standard does not promote intellectual diversity, but instead focuses exclusively on legally questionable, surface-level diversity of admitting and hiring “underrepresented groups, particularly those related to race and ethnicity.” The American Council of Trustees and Alumni rightly observes that “in the world of higher education, diversity has come to mean a preference for a diversity of backgrounds, but not a diversity of views.” Through its proposed “diversity, equity, and inclusion” standard—combined with its other efforts to establish racial preferences across the entire profession—the ABA seeks to return the study and practice of law to an era in which Americans placed a shameful emphasis on skin color and race.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

The American Bar Association and other institutions have moved away from promoting equality under the law to promoting “equity” under the law.

Rather than equalizing opportunities for students and staff, these proposals would make law schools more race-conscious and less intellectually diverse.

Our legal system must be open and accessible—regardless of any specific characteristics—to all who come before it.

Equality under the law is a bedrock principle of our nation’s legal system. Unfortunately, many leading legal institutions, including the American Bar Association (ABA), have shifted their focus away from promoting equality under the law to promoting the more nefarious and nebulous idea of “equity” under the law. This shift may seem subtle, but it is not. It is a shift from the ideal of a “color-blind” society and legal system to one that is consciously color and race obsessed—one that affirmatively discriminates on the basis of race, albeit to fix the supposed systemic racism of our society and our legal system that many on the Left believe still exists today. Whereas the term “equality” has focused on equality of opportunity for all, “equity” focuses on equality of outcomes, which can only be guaranteed by discriminating against some to ensure the equal outcomes of others.

The legal profession is not alone in experiencing this shift. On the whole, our nation’s institutions are growingly preoccupied with race. Commitment to “diversity” is now corporate America’s not-so-secret password: a signal of one’s “woke” social consciousness—the kind that turns the once-prohibited use of race into the foremost consideration for most decisions at nearly every major corporation. The NASDAQ exchange, for example, has proposed (and the Securities and Exchange Commission has approved) a diversity rule for the boards of recognized corporations trading on the exchange that requires them to have at least two “diverse” board members, or to file a statement explaining why they do not.2

More at https://www.heritage.org/courts/report/the-american-bar-associations-diversity-agenda-endangers-the-integrity-the-legal