The end is near for the American Bar Association

Thursday, September 03, 2026

When the history of the American Bar Association's downfall is written, one theme will recur: it didn't have to end this way. By the 1960s, nearly half of the lawyers in the United States were members of the ABA. Congress, Presidents, and the courts consulted the ABA closely as a trusted advisor on all legal matters. Yet, tragically, that trust was squandered when the ABA was captured by the left. Instead of serving as a trade group for lawyers, the ABA became just another left-wing advocacy group. As membership declined, the ABA could have arrested its progressive lurch, but instead accelerated in the wrong direction. The group took liberal positions on abortion, affirmative action, national security, and other controversial issues that had nothing to do with the legal profession ...

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#1 | Posted by qcp at 2026-09-03 02:24 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Attack the source without addressing the arguments. Typical.

#2 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-09-03 02:30 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

When Hell is the source it's hard to get beyond that.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-09-03 02:59 PM | Reply

I'm just going to assume you're some sort of masochistic pervert, you seem to enjoy getting beaten up so regularly.

#4 | Posted by morris at 2026-09-03 03:38 PM | Reply

More -------- from Ballwasher the Cowardly MAGAT.

---- off, you drooling imbecilic trisomy 23 bitch.

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-09-03 04:29 PM | Reply

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
William Shakespeare, Henry VI Part 2

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-09-03 04:37 PM | Reply

And.....it's the villain talking....

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-09-03 04:42 PM | Reply

More from the cited OpEd...

... I played a small role in trying to stop the ABA's collapse, which I have not previously discussed, but now wish to share. In early 2023, the Editor of the ABA Journal invited me to write a regular column in the flagship publication.

At first I was skeptical. I had long been hostile to the ABA, which had become a left-wing organization that exercised sweeping regulatory authority over law schools.

I agreed to write for the Journal under one condition: my columns would be critical of the ABA and progressive orthodoxies.

My goal was to upset the status quo. The editor, to his credit, agreed. ...

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-03 06:09 PM | Reply

@#8

So, the author of that OpEd admits he always had a torch to bear against the A.B.A.

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-03 06:10 PM | Reply

translation the ABA is doing fine and getting ready to help remove trump.

#10 | Posted by Tor at 2026-09-03 07:01 PM | Reply

translation the ABA is doing fine and getting ready to help remove trump.

#11 | Posted by Tor at 2026-09-03 07:01 PM | Reply

What he means is that following the Law today is left-wing, so it's really great that rwingers have Donald Trump to slobber over.

You know, because Obama was a foreign born Communist who wore brown suits.

He's the kind of 'Constitutional expert' that helped create Citizens United with Corporations as Super Citizens and Money as speech.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2026-09-03 07:17 PM | Reply

@#12 ... What he means is that following the Law today is left-wing ...

Agreed.

And that's pretty much the view I came away with after wading through the OpEd.

#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-03 07:45 PM | Reply