According to a report from Above the Law, the Department of Justice has threatened the American Bar Association with an antitrust probe over its treatment of adjunct professors. The report frames this as a shift in focus: after the ABA folded on diversity-related accreditation standards, the Trump administration is now "moving the goalposts to the faculty lounge."
The exact nature of the antitrust concern is not detailed in the report, but the implication is that ABA accreditation requirements governing adjunct faculty could be seen as anticompetitive. The ABA, which sets standards for law schools, has faced increasing political pressure over its accreditation criteria.
The report suggests this is an escalation rather than a resolution, with the DOJ continuing to scrutinize the ABA's role in legal education. No further specifics about the probe's scope or timeline were provided in the source.