re: American Bar Association drops LSAT requirement for Law School admissions

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No, they did and they do.

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And they still can. They were not required to then; they are not required to now. They were not barred from doing so then; they are not barred from doing so now.

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Really?

Lower standards = shittier lawyers, and it mostly affects poor people because the cheaper, shittier lawyers will be their lawyers. Do I really have to draw you a picture to explain this?

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What you haven't actually done is explain how this is a "lowering of standards". Again, the LSAT is simply an aptitude test, like the SAT/ACT. The ABA did not mandate a minimum score. As I've posted before, you could take the LSAT, get every single question wrong, and still be admitted to whatever law school was willing to take you. Law schools had the discretion to do whatever they wanted. They still have that discretion going forward. The only difference is that if a school wants to ignore an LSAT score, which they were always free to do, they can simply not require the test score be reported at all.

Standards aren't "being lowered" because there was no mandated "LSAT standard" that existed to begin with.