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The American Bar Association’s promotion of left-leaning policies has a long and storied history. America’s oldest voluntary legal organization no longer focuses on ensuring equality under the law; instead, it focuses on the more nefarious and nebulous idea of “equity” under the law. This shift away from a “color-blind” society that emphasizes equality of opportunity to a “color-conscious” society that emphasizes equality of outcomes necessarily means discriminating against some to advantage others an idea that many Americans thought the nation had rejected long ago.
Florida Supreme Court s order blocking diversity quotas for CLE instructors could impact ABA programs
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The Florida Supreme Court’s recent decision to prohibit diversity quotas for continuing legal education programs may reverberate beyond the borders of the Sunshine State.
In its Thursday order, the state supreme court held that while it understood the objective of the Florida Bar Business Law Section’s new policy requiring a minimum number of diverse faculty at section-sponsored CLE programs, the measure was “out of bounds.”
“Quotas based on characteristics like the ones in this policy are antithetical to basic American principles of nondiscrimination,” the court said. “It is essential that the Florida Bar withhold its approval from continuing legal education programs that are tainted by such discrimination.”