Court Rules "Marginalized" People Too Stupid To Pass Bar Exam

Lowering Standards

Did you hear that noise? It is the toppling of standards & requirements for lawyers. Until two minutes ago, in order to protect the public from incompetent lawyers, a person had to 1) graduate from college, 2) graduate from law school and 3) pass the Bar Exam in his/her state. The third requirement has been eliminated. [When will the second requirement be tossed out, or the first?]

As you may have already noticed, when one state in COW implements a horrible idea, eventually the other two states follow suit. Within days of Oregon eliminating the Bar Exam requirement for lawyers, Washington followed suit, with California “considering it.” Why? The stated reason is, essentially, “too many minorities” fail the Bar Exam.

In 2020 the Washington Supreme Court created the Bar Licensure Task Force “to assess disproportionate impacts on examinees of color and first generation examinees, consider the need for alternatives to the current bar exam, and analyze those potential alternatives.” Upon accepting the task force’s recommendation, the court was especially insulting toward members of a made-up group of Americans: “marginalized.”

The task force found that the traditional exam “disproportionally and unnecessarily blocks” marginalized groups from becoming practicing attorneys, but did not define “marginalized groups.” This ruling comes less than a year after the US Supreme Court ended Affirmative Action in higher education. Coincidence?

THREE WAYS TO OBTAIN LAW LICENSE IN WASHINGTON STATE

Once the new process is up and running, a law license applicant in Washington State will have three choices to become licensed, one way is objective and two ways are subjective. The specifics, scale and implementation plan for the pathways have yet to be developed by the Washington State Bar and a timeline to accomplish said changes has yet to be determined.

One: The law school graduate can take & pass the re-imagined Bar Exam. In 2022 the Bar Exam lowered the passing score from 270 to 266.

Two: The law school graduate can complete a six-month apprenticeship while being supervised and guided by a qualified attorney, along with finishing three courses.

Three: The law student can become practice-ready by completing 12 qualifying skills credits and 500 hours of work as a licensed legal intern. Upon completion of those requirements, they would submit a portfolio of that work to waive the bar exam.

SUBJECTIVE REPLACES OBJECTIVE

The first choice is objective. The scoring process is completely objective and blind. The test examiner knows nothing about the person who took the test because each test taker is given a number. His/her name is not used. The examiners don’t know if the test taker is an 80-year-old black lesbian or a pasty white 25-year-old man.

The second and third choices are either partially or wholly subjective because the person(s) making the decisions during the licensing process of a given individual will know virtually everything there is to know about him/her. Democrat? Republican? I have no doubt that a Republican will be treated more harshly than a Democrat applicant, for example. And a “marginalized” applicant will skate through easier than a person who is not considered a “social justice victim.” Why do I say that? Because the Washington State Bar, like the Oregon State Bar, is owned by The Hard Left.

GOAL IS TO INCREASE “DIVERSITY,” NOT TO INCREASE QUALITY

Gonzaga School of Law Dean Jacob Rooksby hopes for “guardrails” so that the goal of increasing diversity and meeting legal needs in marginalized communities is met. “The combination of adopting the (brand new) NextGen Bar Exam and lowering the score are positive steps to close the access to justice rate that we have in Washington state and other states have as well,” he said. There you have it! He admits they are lowering standards to “increase diversity.”

LICENSING ILLEGAL ALIENS

Washington is a sanctuary state which signs up foreign nationals for Obamacare upon arrival. No surprise, Biden’s Guests have been pouring in these last three years.

Two days before this court ruling, Governor Jay Inslee signed into law HB 1889 which removes all barriers to illegal aliens obtaining all kinds for licenses and certificates, from lawyer to hairdresser, from doctor to electrician, from driver to CPA, from plumber to architect . . . . Any professional license or certificate of accomplishment issued by the State of Washington will be given to foreign nationals residing in America illegally.

Biden’s Guests need only to get an Employer Identification Number from the IRS. Washington State is starting the creation of a country where more & more residents are not citizens, thereby degrading & eventually eliminating the concept of American citizenship. Where will we be twenty years from now? I will write an article about HB 1889 shortly.

I don’t know about other professions, but I can predict that the legal profession is headed into a two-tier system. Savvy employers and clients will first ask whether or not a certain attorney took the Bar Exam. Those who took the Bar Exam will be seen as more capable, regardless of race, ethnicity, et al, by the potential client or potential employer. Although employers are not allowed to ask this question, clients certainly can: “Are you an illegal alien?”