State Bar’s Board of Directors Sets Meeting over President McDougal’s BLM Comments

The 45-member governing body of the State Bar of Texas has scheduled an emergency meeting for July 27 to discuss Facebook posts by the organization’s president stating that Black Lives Matter is “a terrorist group.”

Two members of the bar association’s board of directors have called publicly for Larry McDougal, who was sworn in as the Texas Bar president less than four weeks ago, to resign. Hundreds of other lawyers in the state have taken to Facebook to ask or demand that McDougal resign.