Dumping the ABA?

Texas is going to let its top court, not the ABA, decide which law schools' degrees graduates are eligible for admission to the bar. Florida, Ohio, and Tennessee are considering similar proposals for wresting control of accreditation from that private entity called the ABA. 

Here at OTLSS, we have said for years that the ABA is unsuitable as accreditor. It does a shitty job, always favoring scam-schools even when they fail year after year to fulfill the ABA's frightfully weak standards. 

But accreditation by a court is unlikely to improve the situation, and quite likely to make it worse. Apparently the move to brush the ABA aside is driven by a wish to permit schools that even the ABA would not take. It also seems improbable that the courts or other entities would undertake a proper investigation of the various things that call themselves law schools. 

This new effort to seize control of accreditation may well send us out of the frying pan and into the fire.