The Supreme Court of Alabama has now revised its admissions rules to eliminate graduation from an ABA-accredited law school as a requirement to ​take its bar exam — following the lead of both Texas and Florida and ratcheting up efforts during President Donald Trump’s second term to dislodge ‌the ABA as the primary accreditor of U.S. law schools.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court of Tennessee is weighing whether to eliminate its own requirement that attorneys graduate from an ABA-accredited law school or a law school approved by the state’s Board of Law Examiners.

Under the revised rule, ​graduates of five Alabama law schools are eligible to sit for the state’s bar exam. Graduates of out-of-state law schools ⁠may also take the Alabama Bar as long as they qualify for the bar exam in those other jurisdictions. That means graduates of ABA-accredited law schools ​will still be able to take the Alabama Bar Exam, as will certain graduates of non-ABA accredited law schools recognized by other states.

The court’s order said it had ​been examining the admissions rule changes for several months and had consulted with the Alabama Board of Law Examiners.

ABA accreditation continues to be “gold standard for law schools,” said Daniel Thies, Chair of the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. “A national accreditor is in the best interests of law students, law schools, states and the ​profession,” he said.

The states’ moves to shrink the ABA’s law school oversight come amid a wider conflict between the ABA and the Republican Trump administration over issues ​ranging from judicial nominations to the president’s targeting of law firms.

Tennessee has described its reconsideration of its ABA requirement as an access-to-justice issue with a goal of ​lowering barriers into the legal profession ​and reducing the cost of legal ⁠services in the state.

Many other individuals and groups backed Tennessee’s continued reliance on ABA accreditation in their own letters to the court, including the Tennessee Bar Association, the Law School Admission Council, and the Nashville Bar ​Association.