The Wall Street Journal

The Justice Department has warned the American Bar Association it may face an antitrust investigation if it fails to change rules that limit the role part-time professors play in teaching law students. 

The department delivered the message in a new letter to the ABA’s accreditation council, whose quality standards cover most law schools. The Oct. 7 letter—signed by Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal—said adjunct professors are cheaper and often have more real-world experience. Limiting how much they can teach hurts education and puts upward pressure on tuition costs, Woodward said.

The limits “cannot be clearly explained by differences in real or perceived quality in the instruction of full-time or adjunct faculty,” wrote Woodward, the department’s third-ranking official.

The missive adds to the Trump administration’s campaign against the country’s largest association of lawyers, which has come under fire from Republicans who say the group favors liberal political positions and shouldn’t have so much power to set professional and educational standards.

The ABA sued the Trump administration last year over actions it took against some elite law firms.

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In August, President Trump directed the Navy to figure out how to return to using steam catapults on aircraft carriers to hurl fighter jets into the air.

For U.S. military officials, the order marked the return of an old foe: Bill Jones.

Who?

Exactly. Trump has described the man as a “catapulter” who served in the Navy for 25 years and loves the smell of steam. Jones convinced Trump the old technology was superior to modern methods of launching jets, the president said.

The incident sent Navy leaders searching for Jones to figure out what he said that prompted the president to demand an overhaul of one of the most expensive weapons programs in history. They never found him, according to defense officials.

But they’re still dealing with the consequences of the mystery sailor and his chance encounter with the president.

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Compact and European in feel, San Francisco has been a leader in removing cars from streets, closing a portion of Market Street, its downtown main artery, along with roads in Golden Gate Park and the scenic lookout Twin Peaks in recent years. Upper Great Highway joined the list after crowds flocked to a pandemic-era pilot project that temporarily banned cars on weekends, starting at noon Fridays.

Jeff Daniel, 57, who lives nearby, later joined residents pushing to make the ban against private cars permanent and create a public-recreation space. Voters agreed in November 2024, with 55% support, and the new park, Sunset Dunes, opened in April 2025, named for the impressive sand dunes lining Ocean Beach, one of the nation’s premier big-wave surfing spots. The city called it “the largest pedestrianization project in California’s history.”

“Sunset Dunes acts as a public commons,” said Daniel, a music entrepreneur. “Every day I walk or bike there, I see friends, neighbors and visitors meeting, walking, talking, exercising and engaging with each other directly, leaving their phones in their pockets.”

But many residents say the 2024 ballot measure came about too hastily with too little outreach to neighborhoods that relied on the Upper Great Highway as a main artery. While city traffic data shows a negligible increase in driving times, many residents tell a different story, and they fear scheduled construction projects and road closures will make things worse.

“It takes a good 15/ 20 minutes longer on average to get through the neighborhood and to and from the freeway to my mother’s house in San Carlos,” Jennifer Dougherty, a 55-year-old pet sitter who lives a block from the closed highway, said by text. “There are speed bumps and arterial stop signs everywhere.”

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