(Daily Signal)—Virtually every law school in America must be accredited by the American Bar Association, an organization that has abused this position of trust to push a radical leftist agenda on law students, including policies that violate the law itself.
The American Bar Association has long held an undeserved position as a vaunted legal institution—largely through the imprimatur certain government largesse has given it.
For instance, since 1965, when Congress passed the Higher Education Act, the U.S. Department of Education has recognized the ABA as the sole accrediting agency for American law schools.
On top of that, nearly every state requires those seeking admission to its bar to have graduated from an ABA-accredited law school.
Yet the ABA’s radical leftist agenda has been painfully apparent with several of its recent actions, including its dangerous statement that the Equal Rights Amendment had been ratified as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution when, in fact, it had not been. The ABA’s position was so partisan and radical that even then-President Joe Biden’s archivist of the United States, who certifies new amendments to the Constitution, rejected it out of hand.
Additionally, the ABA has also sued the Trump administration and issued mendacious statements about the need for lawyers to stand up to protect the rule of law in response to President Donald Trump’s actions. Interestingly, the ABA remained eerily silent when Democrat senators such as Chuck Schumer and Sheldon Whitehouse threatened sitting Supreme Court justices and made clear their intent to undermine public confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Given its overt opposition and disdain for Trump (and really anyone who doesn’t embrace a radical leftist agenda), it makes sense that conservative lawyers are using common sense to call for removing the ABA from its privileged position of vetting judicial nominees to the federal bench—a position the Trump Justice Department seems ready to embrace.
Despite all of these misdeeds, the ABA’s most problematic positions have been when it has tried to use its quasi-governmental accrediting power to force law schools to violate the law.
Yes, you heard that right. The ABA, with its stated mission of serving the legal profession and the public “by defending liberty and delivering justice as the national representative of the legal profession,” has tried to force law schools to break the law. (Set aside the facts that the ABA hasn’t defended liberty or delivered justice and certainly isn’t a national representative of the legal profession.)
Specifically, the ABA has tried to force law schools to discriminate in admissions and employment on the basis of race.
No, this isn’t a tale from bygone days. Instead, it’s a sad story playing out in real time today.
What’s particularly galling has been the ABA’s position that its own rules trump any other law—even the U.S. Constitution!
When the ABA first received pushback to its proposed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Standard (Standard 206) that law schools must meet to keep accreditation, it had the audacity to issue a statement saying, “The requirement of a constitutional provision or statute that purports to prohibit consideration of race, color, ethnicity, … [etc.] in admissions or employment decisions is not a justification for a schools noncompliance with Standard 206.”
In other words, the ABA said that schools had to comply with its discriminatory race-based standards for admissions and employment, regardless of what the Constitution or the law states.
Lest its intent be misunderstood, it later clarified: “To ensure the effective educational use of diversity, a law school should include among its faculty, staff, and student [body] members of all underrepresented groups, but should be particularly focused on those groups that historically have been underrepresented in the legal profession because of race or ethnicity.”
Worse still, as Attorney General Pam Bondi recently pointed out, the ABA left law schools in legal limbo for more than 18 months after the U.S. Supreme Court made clear that such racial discrimination is illegal—though that already should have been clear.
It’s a welcome development that the ABA temporarily suspended enforcement of Standard 206, but as Bondi pointed out, this temporary halt isn’t enough. In noting its temporary pause on enforcement, the ABA said that its “commitment to ensuring access to legal education to all people, including those who have been historically excluded from the legal profession … has not changed.” In other words, as Bondi said, its “commitment to DEI” remains in place.
In a letter to ABA leaders, Bondi made clear that “if diversity is defined in terms of race and sex outcomes, [as the ABA continues to do regardless of Standard 206], universities cannot lawfully pursue diversity by any means.”
Bondi noted that the ABA’s “status as the sole accrediting body of American law schools is a privilege, and mandatory diversity objectives are an abuse of that privilege, which is subject to revocation.” She continued, saying that even “if it does not come to that, it is unclear how state bars can lawfully continue to require prospective lawyers to attend ABA-accredited law schools if the [ABA] continues to abuse its privilege in this way.”
She closed by making clear that the “Department of Justice stands ready to take every action necessary to prevent further abuse.”
And to that, I say kudos to Bondi for standing ready to take these long-overdue actions.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
