Just to clarify, you are right that passing one bar generally only makes you eligible for immediate admission in that state. There are some states that are willing to take parts of your scores and even cross-admit in some limited settings,but those are the exception and not the rule. Once you are admitted in most…

California does let people “read” for the law in lieu of a JD, but it is a lot more than “assisting a lawyer” for 3 years. You have to register with the state bar, there’s a specific set of supervised study hour requirements, you have to pass the “baby bar” after your first year (which is a terrible little weeder exam…

I’ve actually run into the flip side of this on occasion. My last name makes people think they are getting some exotic person, and when my vanilla face shows up you can actually see the disappointment in the face of the person who was hoping to make a diversity hire. They then immediately ask me the improper question…

One minor suggestion - name on letterhead is something like K. Benjamin Bradford III, but letter is signed Buck with no further explanation given.

Trump clearly thinks tokenism is going to get minority communities to overlook his calls for the death penalty and harsher sentences for drug crimes, the exact same approach that got the handful of people he is considering pardoning into jail in the first place. The cognitive dissonance is apparently limitless, yet…

I haven’t read the slip op myself yet, but all day my e-mail has been con law and religious law scholars takes on what the opinion does or doesn’t mean. The consensus is it was of ducking the bigger issues presented by the case (basically where (if at all) does religion yield to being a member of a pluralistic society…

I’d put some major caveats on your assertions about scholarly positions on these topics. There are some people who support both of those positions, but both are generally seen as extremes that run counter to default expectations among scholars. Both textualism and unitary executive theory, which are the predicates for…

To be fair it is a name of a street in Compton that the gang in turn got its name from as well as a reservoir in Ventura County. Some of my first fishing trips were to Lake Piru and I worked in High School with people from Hawthorne and Compton who were trying to avoid the gang so I kind of resent that for many people…

Because local names in America are often pronounced in the the most fucked up way possible. Couch Street in Portland is Cooch somehow, Brazil and Peru Indiana are Brazz ill and Pie Roo, and I really can’t adequately express how weird El Dorado sounds with an Arkansas accent.

This is a trick Reagan tried to play, too - I’ve read a ton of presidential findings for research, and he actually declared small manufacturing had to be maintained as a way of keeping up our national security capacity in the event we had to do a WWII level mobilization. It all ties back to unitary executive theory…

Already have - didn’t you know all those coal plants are being “forced” into closure because of excessive regulation? Never mind that it has been a dying industry since the 1970s.

He keeps making that claim about the balance of trade, which he basically admitted he pulled out of his ass in a session with Trudeau. Apparently (as he has done with a host of other things) his staffers after the fact had to come up with a way to make the claim seem “truthier” which was accomplished from redefining…

Well, most of us, anyways. Typically there’s a residual in the population that tends to avoid cognitive biases as shown in the Cognitive Reflection Test. The populations that do “best” on the CRT in avoiding logical fallacies though are also overrepresented in the MRA “red pill” movement - engineers, douchey…

And of course this is both inaccurate as a matter of law (police have highly restricted rights to work actions despite having unions because they are supposed to, um, continue to do police work) and facts (Chicago is neither at the top of the pack in terms of homicides in the US nor is the recent bump anywhere near…

“Absolutely not.” (pointing feverishly at tape recorder while indicating assent)

That almost has to be a typo - detained would work, and maybe even destabilized (a stretch), and maybe some weird conflation of detained and incapacitated was intended, but there’s no way decentralized makes sense.

Parole is a discretionary grant of early release from prison, typically based on a parole board proceeding. These are most commonly associated with “indeterminate” sentencing - 5 to life, up to 25 with a possibility of parole after 10, etc. Because these are discretionary grants, contrition, rehabilitation and…

And I’m guessing Trump will give her a pardon at a Susan B Anthony List Get Out the Vote event the way he did with Arpaio, dead abortion providers be damned.

It depends on the specifics of the sentencing and the amount of credits she got for things like pre-conviction detainment, behavior in prison, etc. Serving 23 (if we date her time from sentencing in 1995) out of 31 isn’t that atypical. What is unusual is that it is quite apparent she has not modified her positions at…

Already well on their way based on the funding for public education - especially higher education - in this country.