{"id":115007,"date":"2025-04-15T15:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T23:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/15\/aba-gets-sued-over-scholarship-that-discriminates-against-whites\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T23:02:44","slug":"aba-gets-sued-over-scholarship-that-discriminates-against-whites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/15\/aba-gets-sued-over-scholarship-that-discriminates-against-whites\/","title":{"rendered":"ABA Gets Sued Over Scholarship That \u201cDiscriminates Against Whites\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What is this, a re-run episode?<\/p>\n

You know the story. The American Alliance for Equal Rights is back again and they\u2019ve set their sights on the ABA. You know the drill: yada yada yada, racial minorities took my spot, I didn\u2019t even apply but I was chilled from doing so because of the language, stop this organization from spending their money on the subset of their choosing, on and on. Law360<\/a> has coverage: <\/p>\n

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According to the suit, the scholarship program is run by the ABA\u2019s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Center and provides students with $15,000 over their three years of law school. Only 20 to 25 students are chosen each year, and to be eligible, a student must be entering their first year of law school and be Black, Native American, Hispanic, Asian\/Pacific Islander, or another racial or ethnic minority, the conservative group said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cThis blatant discrimination is not only unbecoming of an association of lawyers, but it\u2019s also illegal,\u201d the complaint said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Illegal? Can\u2019t the judge just tell the ABA to \u201cfacilitate\u201d the end of the program so that the trains can keep running on time?<\/p>\n

One of the things that I\u2019m always suspicious of about these claims is the ethnic minority prong not being satisfied. People like to talk as if White is White is White, but that misses the ethnicity boat completely. It is damn near impossible to know what the actual case is because the person they\u2019re suing on behalf of is a John Doe, but what if they\u2019re Czech or Italian or Irish or Jewish or Greek\u2026you get the point. While the complaint makes the claim that \u201c[t]he ABA would not give the scholarship to a white student, no matter how badly that student needed financial assistance,\u201d there are many ways that an applicant could shoehorn themselves in to the running for the $15k \u2014 they should be made to prove that they don\u2019t qualify under any of the given prongs before they make arguments about how the requirements excluded them from even trying. Take Kim Kardashian for example. She\u2019s not financially pressed by any means, but if she (or someone similarly situated) wanted to apply for the scholarship, she appears to be fair game. Sure she\u2019s white, but her father is Armenian. Why wouldn\u2019t that satisfy the ethnic minority prong? She may not ultimately get the scholarship, but its a much harder sell to argue that she was denied the chance.<\/p>\n

The case is American Alliance For Equal Rights v. American Bar Association<\/em>,\u00a01:25-cv-03980, in the\u00a0U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. You could follow up on it, but it doesn\u2019t seem that much different from the Blum & Co. litigation we\u2019ve seen before.<\/p>\n

ABA Scholarship Illegally Bars White Applicants, Suit Says<\/a> [Law360]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s<\/a>. \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor<\/a>, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com<\/a>\u00a0and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post ABA Gets Sued Over Scholarship That \u201cDiscriminates Against Whites\u201d<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What is this, a re-run episode?<\/p>\n

You know the story. The American Alliance for Equal Rights is back again and they\u2019ve set their sights on the ABA. You know the drill: yada yada yada, racial minorities took my spot, I didn\u2019t even apply but I was chilled from doing so because of the language, stop this organization from spending their money on the subset of their choosing, on and on. Law360<\/a> has coverage: <\/p>\n

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According to the suit, the scholarship program is run by the ABA\u2019s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Center and provides students with $15,000 over their three years of law school. Only 20 to 25 students are chosen each year, and to be eligible, a student must be entering their first year of law school and be Black, Native American, Hispanic, Asian\/Pacific Islander, or another racial or ethnic minority, the conservative group said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cThis blatant discrimination is not only unbecoming of an association of lawyers, but it\u2019s also illegal,\u201d the complaint said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Illegal? Can\u2019t the judge just tell the ABA to \u201cfacilitate\u201d the end of the program so that the trains can keep running on time?<\/p>\n

One of the things that I\u2019m always suspicious of about these claims is the ethnic minority prong not being satisfied. People like to talk as if White is White is White, but that misses the ethnicity boat completely. It is damn near impossible to know what the actual case is because the person they\u2019re suing on behalf of is a John Doe, but what if they\u2019re Czech or Italian or Irish or Jewish or Greek\u2026you get the point. While the complaint makes the claim that \u201c[t]he ABA would not give the scholarship to a white student, no matter how badly that student needed financial assistance,\u201d there are many ways that an applicant could shoehorn themselves in to the running for the $15k \u2014 they should be made to prove that they don\u2019t qualify under any of the given prongs before they make arguments about how the requirements excluded them from even trying. Take Kim Kardashian for example. She\u2019s not financially pressed by any means, but if she (or someone similarly situated) wanted to apply for the scholarship, she appears to be fair game. Sure she\u2019s white, but her father is Armenian. Why wouldn\u2019t that satisfy the ethnic minority prong? She may not ultimately get the scholarship, but its a much harder sell to argue that she was denied the chance.<\/p>\n

The case is American Alliance For Equal Rights v. American Bar Association<\/em>,\u00a01:25-cv-03980, in the\u00a0U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. You could follow up on it, but it doesn\u2019t seem that much different from the Blum & Co. litigation we\u2019ve seen before.<\/p>\n

ABA Scholarship Illegally Bars White Applicants, Suit Says<\/a> [Law360]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s<\/a>. \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor<\/a>, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com<\/a>\u00a0and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post ABA Gets Sued Over Scholarship That \u201cDiscriminates Against Whites\u201d<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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