White law students will now be treated equally to their racial minority peers when it comes to applying for an American Bar Association clerkship program.
“The American Bar Association has revised the criteria for its Judicial Clerkship Program to eliminate references to minority students and ‘communities of color’ after a conservative legal group alleged that the ABA was illegally discriminating by using racial quotas,” Reuters reported earlier this week.
A 2019 news release states the program was specifically aimed at “minorities.”
Reuters reported that the program “previously required participating law schools to send between four and six students ‘from underrepresented communities of color.”