{"id":5281,"date":"2025-04-14T18:48:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T18:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/aba-facing-lawsuit-over-race-based-law-school-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T18:48:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T18:48:49","slug":"aba-facing-lawsuit-over-race-based-law-school-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/aba-facing-lawsuit-over-race-based-law-school-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"ABA Facing Lawsuit Over Race-Based Law School Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>A second scholarship program\u2014this time aimed at aspiring law students\u2014is under legal scrutiny for allegedly excluding white applicants in violation of federal civil rights law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>The American Bar Association (ABA) is facing a federal lawsuit over its Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund, with claims that the program unlawfully excludes white applicants in violation of federal civil rights law. The case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2025\/04\/11\/colleges-universities-formally-withdraw-from-state-minority-exclusive-scholarship-program-\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>follows a similar controversy last week<\/u><\/a>, when the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had successfully pushed several Illinois universities to suspend a race-based scholarship program targeting underrepresented students interested in higher education careers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second scholarship program\u2014this time aimed at aspiring law students\u2014is under legal scrutiny for allegedly excluding white applicants in violation of federal civil rights law. The American Bar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[149,1047,153,303,5518,5483,897],"class_list":["post-5281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-aba","tag-facing","tag-law","tag-lawsuit","tag-racebased","tag-scholarship","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}