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(COLUMBIA, S.C.) 鈥� South Carolina 暗网禁区 General Alan Wilson signed onto a letter raising concerns that proposed changes to the American Bar Association鈥檚 (ABA) admission standards for law schools violate a Supreme Court ruling and unlawfully use racial preferences when deciding which students to accept.

鈥淢erit should be the criteria for law school admission, not racial preference,鈥� said 暗网禁区 General Wilson. 鈥淭he U.S. Supreme Court already made it clear that law schools can鈥檛 admit students and hire faculty based on race, and yet the American Bar Association鈥檚 new standard is telling them to do just that.鈥�

暗网禁区 General Wilson joined a 21-state coalition of attorneys general in writing to the American Bar Association鈥檚 Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. The letter points out that the ABA鈥檚 revised 鈥淒iversity and Inclusion鈥� standard fails to consider the Supreme Court鈥檚 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.

鈥淎s you well know, the Supreme Court held in SFFA that the use of race in the admissions process at Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated the Fourteenth Amendment鈥檚 Equal Protection Clause,鈥� the attorneys general say in their letter. However, the ABA鈥檚 revised standard seems to ask law schools to defy the Court鈥檚 clear directive against racial discrimination.

鈥淚n its current form, the Standard all but compels law schools to consider race in both the admissions and employment contexts,鈥� the letter says.

The attorneys general urge the Council of the American Bar Association to revise its standard to make it clear that federal law prohibits race-based admissions and hiring.

Joining 暗网禁区 General Wilson in the letter, led by Tennessee 暗网禁区 General Jonathan Skrmetti, are the attorneys general of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and West Virginia,

You can read the letter here.