Conservatives have been waiting for this moment.
Ron DeSantis just handed them a roadmap to dismantle the woke legal establishment.
And Ron DeSantis just pulled the trigger on a move that has the ABA panicking.
DeSantis Announces Florida Will Follow Texas' Lead
Ron DeSantis made a major announcement at a Wednesday press conference in Steinhatchee, Florida.
The governor called for the Florida Supreme Court to replace the American Bar Association as the primary accreditor of law schools in the Sunshine State.
DeSantis didn't mince words about why the ABA needed to go.
"Like, left of the left. I mean, like, it's a very partisan left activist organization, and you know, they have a right to do that if that's what floats your boat, but they should not play a central role in legal education or the legal profession," DeSantis stated.
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Florida would follow the same blueprint Texas just executed.
On January 6, the Texas Supreme Court became the first state in the nation to end the ABA's 42-year oversight of law schools.
"The Texas Supreme Court said the law schools are going to be accredited by the Supreme Court of Texas, and that's how they're going to do it. They should do that at the Florida Supreme Court. They should do the exact same thing that Texas did," DeSantis explained.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier jumped on board immediately.
"I recommended the same for Florida last July. I hope the Florida Supreme Court will soon follow suit and end the leftist accreditation cartel that is the ABA," Uthmeier said.
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Trump Administration Already Declared War On ABA
The ABA's grip on the legal profession has been unraveling for months.
Trump stripped the organization of its special access to review federal judicial nominees over the summer.
Then Trump cut millions in USAID and State Department funding to the ABA.
Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter in February accusing the ABA's diversity requirements of violating the Supreme Court's 2023 decision ending affirmative action.
The pattern is clear.
Conservatives finally figured out the ABA isn't some neutral professional organization.
It's a left-wing advocacy group that's been gatekeeping the legal profession for decades.
The organization's been pushing diversity mandates, attacking Christian law schools, and using accreditation power to enforce progressive orthodoxy on campus.
DeSantis already took on the woke accreditation cartel once.
Last July, he launched the Commission for Public Higher Education to replace the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
That new accreditor partnered with university systems in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
The template works.
Create a multi-state alternative that conservatives control, get Department of Education approval, then watch the monopoly crumble.
The ABA knows what's coming.
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Uthmeier accused the organization of anti-Christian discrimination against a Florida Catholic law school.
A panel appointed by Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Carlos Muniz issued a report in October laying out options to end the ABA's "near monopoly."
Ohio and Tennessee are already eyeing the same move.
The dominoes are falling and the ABA can't stop it.
Here's why this matters beyond law school bureaucracy.
The ABA has controlled who can become a lawyer in America since 1923.
Schools had to comply with the ABA's standards on faculty, curriculum, facilities, diversity requirements, and bar passage rates.
That gave progressives a chokehold on legal education for a century.
Want to teach constitutional originalism without the required diversity seminar? Too bad.
Want to hire based on merit instead of identity quotas? The ABA will threaten your accreditation.
State supreme courts are now saying enough.
Texas proved it can be done without destroying lawyer mobility between states.
The Texas Supreme Court stipulated it would preserve graduates' ability to use Texas law degrees in other states and vice versa.
Florida can do the same thing.
This is how you actually drain the swamp.
You don't just complain about woke institutions controlling everything.
You build parallel systems that conservatives control and watch the old guard lose relevance.
The ABA's response? Pure damage control.
They claim the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions "acts separately and independently from the larger ABA."
Nobody's buying it.
The organization already lost credibility when Trump exposed their partisan games with judicial nominations.
Now states are taking away the one power the ABA had left.
DeSantis is betting other Republican governors will follow Texas and Florida's lead.
The momentum is building and Democrats can't stop it because this happens at the state level.
No federal legislation needed, no Senate filibusters to worry about.
Just state supreme courts reclaiming authority they never should have surrendered in the first place.
Sources:
- Danielle Prieur, "Gov. DeSantis proposes a new accreditor for Florida law schools, following Texas' lead," Central Florida Public Media, January 8, 2026.
- Toluwani Osibamowo, "Texas becomes first state to end American Bar Association oversight of law schools," KERA, January 6, 2026.
- Stephany Matat, "Uthmeier urges Florida Supreme Court to cut ABA ties," USA TODAY NETWORK – Florida, January 8, 2026.
