Dozens of law schools across America still require diversity, equity and inclusion coursework or programming to graduate, according to a new report from a conservative education watchdog group.

The nonprofit Defending Education also flagged how the American Bar Association still requires some sort of DEI accreditation requirement despite repealing a DEI mandate last year.

Of nearly 200 law schools accredited by the ABA, “62 appear to still require students to complete DEI-related coursework or programming in order to graduate,” according to the report, published April 16.

“In addition, 72 law schools appear to maintain DEI offices—or rebranded versions of them—that remain in operation.”

The ABA has a near-monopoly on law school accreditation.

Although the association rescinded an accreditation criteria in 2025 that mandated DEI for law schools, what remains is Standard 303, which tasks law schools with providing “education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism” at the start of their program and at least once again before graduation, Defending Education noted in its report.

The requirement may be satisfied by orientation sessions, lectures, courses, or “other educational experiences,” the report noted.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/dozens-of-law-schools-still-require-dei-to-graduate-watchdog-group-finds/

Small Business Administration officials disbursed and forgave loans to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates even after the agency determined that the group is not a small business that would be eligible. Top officials, including Biden SBA Administrator Isabella Guzman, concealed their maneuvering on the topic by substituting the words Planned Parenthood with “Benghazi” in emails, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who chairs the committee that oversees the agency, revealed Monday.

“We now know that after the SBA Biden officials met, planned and strategized (over ‘Benghazi’), keeping the White House involved, approximately $90 million in Planned Parenthood SBA PPP loans and interest on the loans were forgiven by the Biden administration,” she said.

Ernst asked the Department of Justice to investigate the officials under a statute that says anyone who attempts to conceal a federal record can be imprisoned for up to three years, according to a letter first obtained by The Daily Wire.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-officials-used-codeword-to-hide-loans-to-major-abortion-provider

An appeals court just gave War Secretary Pete Hegseth the victory on his new press policy that requires reporters to be escorted when moving through the Pentagon, for now, overruling a lower court which blocked the policy in favor of the New York Times.

Here’s the news via the AP:

The Defense Department can require journalists to be escorted on Pentagon grounds while the Trump administration appeals a judge’s decision to block its enforcement of a press access policy challenged by The New York Times, an appeals court ruled Monday.

The ruling by a divided three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit isn’t the final decision in the newspaper’s lawsuit over a new Pentagon press credential policy. But the panel’s majority opinion said the administration is likely to succeed in showing that the policy’s escort requirement is legally valid.

The panel granted the government’s request to suspend an April 9 decision by U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman, who ruled that the Defense Department was violating his earlier order to restore access to the Pentagon for reporters.

Circuit Judges Justin Walker, J. Michelle Childs and Bradley Garcia heard the case, with Childs dissenting from the 2-1 majority.

“Reporters can hardly verify sources, gather information, or speak candidly with Department personnel with an escort looming over their shoulders,” Childs wrote.

Friedman found that the Pentagon’s new credential policy violated journalists’ constitutional rights to free speech and due process. He said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s team had tried to evade his March 20 ruling by putting in new rules that expel all reporters from the building unless guided by escorts.

Defense Department spokesperson Sean Parnell said it welcomes the panel’s decision and looks forward to arguing the merits of its “full case” before the same panel. In a statement posted on social media, Parnell said unescorted access to the Pentagon has led to the “regular unauthorized disclosure of sensitive and classified national defense information.”

https://therightscoop.com/breaking-appeals-court-gives-pete-hegseth-victory-over-new-york-times/