Far-left legal ‘car­tel’ in the hot seat as Trump admin decides its law school gate­keep­er sta­tus

The future of the nation’s pri­ma­ry law school accred­i­tor now rests in the hands of the Trump Edu­ca­tion Depart­ment after a fed­er­al pan­el dead­locked 8–8 on whether to strip the Amer­i­can Bar Asso­ci­a­tion (ABA) of its gate­keep­er sta­tus fol­low­ing dozens of fed­er­al com­pli­ance failures.The dead­lock hands the deci­sion to Under Sec­re­tary of Edu­ca­tion Nicholas Kent, who has up to 90 days to decide whether to revoke the ABA’s decades-long accred­i­ta­tion monop­oly over rough­ly 200 law schools nation­wide. In a state­ment to Fox News Dig­i­tal, a Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion spokesper­son con­firmed that staff had already rec­om­mend­ed stri …