added: Plus her mother was a cancer researcher at Berkeley and McGill
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Wikipedia says she âled the debate teamâ at Howard.
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The top 25% of Howard are lower than the bottom 25% of Harvard. Much lower.
| Section | Average | 25th Percentile | 75th Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Math | 593 | 530 | 640 |
| Reading + Writing | 611 | 550 | 650 |
| Composite | 1204 | 1100 | 1270 |
| Section | Average | 25th Percentile | 75th Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Math | 770 | 760 | 800 |
| Reading + Writing | 750 | 730 | 780 |
| Composite | 1520 | 1460 | 1580 |
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Howard unofficial name is How hard University
Harris then attended Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C. While at Howard, she interned as a mailroom clerk for California senator Alan Cranston, chaired the economics society, led the debate team, and joined Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.[41][43] Harris graduated in 1986 with a degree in political science and economics.[44] She then returned to California to attend the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (now University of California College of the Law, San Francisco) through its Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP).[45] While at UC Hastings, she served as president of its chapter of the Black Law Students Association.[46] She graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1989[47] and was admitted to the California Bar in June 1990.[48]
She passed the California Bar exam!
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Suggests she failed the July 1989 and then passed the February 1990.
At that time, it was clearly the toughest graded bar in the country. Also one of the few three-day bars. That made it physically tougher and reduced predictability because the multiple choice part was only 1/3 rather than 1/2 of your grade as in a two-day bar.
Only redeeming factor was almost exclusively limited to general principles of law and not California law (except IIRC, they reserved the right to have one of the two half day practical exercises or six one-hour short essays be on CA wills and estates law). Contrast some other states that had their essays emphasize obscure local laws to make things difficult for out of staters.
In the name of equity, it has been massively dumbed down. Delaware is now likely the toughest graded bar.
With the adoption of the Uniform Bar Exam essay day in addition to the Multi-State Bar Exam multiple choice day state-to state substantive differences have greatly vanishedâŚ
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âOur ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.â
â Mahatma GandhiâAs long as people can be judged by the color of their skin, the problem is not solved.â
â Oprah WinfreyâIn a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.â
â Angela DavisThe beauty of anti-racism is that you donât have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And itâs the only way forward.â
â Ijeoma OluoâRace and racism is a reality that so many of us grow up learning to just deal with. But if we ever hope to move past it, it canât just be on people of color to deal with it. Itâs up to all of us â Black, white, everyone â no matter how well-meaning we think we might be, to do the honest, uncomfortable work of rooting it out.â
â Michelle Obama"For too long politicians told most of us that whatâs wrong with America is the rest of us. Them. Them the minorities. Them the liberals. Them, them, them. But there is no them; thereâs only us. One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty, and justice, for all. "
â Bill Clinton
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From a friend:
I dealt with a super liberal attorney who lived in Berkeley and was on the Board of a nonprofit client; she worked with Kamala when she was attorney general and thought she was awful â basically a lazy incompetent bully. Also the only California attorney general to fail the bar.
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Talking cautiously with my daughter, a public defender and a Prog. She said sheâs reading as much as she can to make herself feel better about Harris. She told me Harris opposes the death penalty. So do we! . But I pointed out Harris is certainly NOT anti-incarceration. She said nobody in politics is. I reminded her of Trumpâs First Step Act. He really is the onl,y prez whoâs done anything about our huge over-incarceration problem. Baby steps!
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The Harris who was DA and AG in California is not the same politician today.
She has always been an opportunist.
She has definitely moved left since 2016 and 2020 and I donât think she is faking.
She is not a moderate hiding behind the veneer of a progressive/Jacobin.
Regarding incarceration, maybe 3 strike was an overreaction to the crime epidemic between 1960 and 1992. But I worry that the pendulum has swung too far in the direction of leniency.
Why did crime increase in the 1960s? Tom Sowell says that we refused to punish criminals, part of the movement to âunderstandâ criminal behavior.
Your daughter is a public defender? If the DA in her county is funded by Soros, she and her colleagues must have the easiest job in the country. Whatâs the point of a public defender and Gideon if the DA refuses to prosecute felonies?
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Which ones should be let go?
- Violent Offenses: 63% of people in state prisons and 7% of those incarcerated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)
- Property Offenses: 13% of people in state prisons and 4% of those incarcerated by the BOP
- Drug Offenses: 13% of people in state prisons, 47% of those incarcerated by the BOP, and 21% of those held by the U.S. Marshals Service
- Public Order Offenses: 11% of people in state prisons and 42% of those incarcerated by the BOP
- Immigration Offenses: 14,000 individuals held by the U.S. Marshals Service
- Weapons Offenses: 9,000 individuals held by the U.S. Marshals Service
- Other Offenses: Not specified, but likely includes a small percentage of individuals incarcerated for miscellaneous offenses
I am for less laws. I am against the idea of not enforcing laws. I think we have all seen the results of not enforcing laws.
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There is already a mechanism for solving the âproblemâ of âover-incarcerationâ.
There are parole boards.
A governor can pardon based on recommendations by state AG.
A President can pardon based on recommendations by DOJ and federal prosecutors (not Marc Rich)
That Marc Rich pardon still bugs the hell out of me.
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added: a handful of funny Twitter clips in the article
Veep (HBO) was a great show. People think a comedy canât be a realistic portrayal of DC.
I always thought West Wing was overrated because it was complete fiction and propaganda. Veep is a mockumentary.
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I wonder what the incarceration rate is if you exclude people awaiting trial or being detained (such as a drunk driver). I donât think the numbers exclude these.
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Lemme tell ya, the perspective I get from my daughterâs experience as a PD in Boulder, Co is a tad different from what I read. Fârinstance, only like 3% of criminal cases are ever tried. Well then, they must all be tried in Boulder Co; she has a heavy trial schedule.
She grew up hearing me say: 1 in 20 American adults has hard prison experience. And Iâm not talkinâ DUI.
If we didnât lock up so many non-violent âcriminalsâ weâd have room to secure the murderers.
And, after the spectacle of Trumpâs â34 felonies!â, anybody who thinks: âwell, they wouldnât be prosecuted unless there was something thereâ is an absolute I d I o t.
People have no idea how easy it is to become a criminal defendant. Read Silverglateâs book : 3 Felonies a Day.
And now, the prison industry is being privatized. Great! A powerful industry lobbying for longer sentences, for criminalization of more behavior.
I donât like it, I wish it werenât true, but: we are a carceral state.
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I didnât mean to imply that your daughter has an easy job. I apologize for my terrible jokes. If I were a professional comedian, I would have less time for Scanalyst (which is a million times better than Ricochet).
Lot of smokers in Boulder⌠their favorite brand is not Philip Morris or Virginia Slims.
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Boulder as well as Denver grew very rapidly. The question that comes to mind is has the amount of courts grown proportionately? The roads certainly have not.
Last time I looked Boulder was an expensive place to live which makes me wonder how many immigrants have moved there to do the lower paying jobs. It may not be intuitive but expensive cities increase poverty and poverty is associated with crime. Same thing is happening to Bozeman Montana.
Yep. Expensive
- In March 2021, the median home price in Boulder was $1,557,500 (source: âRegional cities set records for median home price; Boulder tops $1.55M median housing priceâ).
- As of February 2024, the median sold price for homes in Boulder County, CO was $723.4K, indicating a robust market performance (source: âBoulder Housing Market 2024: Trends and Forecastâ).
- In May 2024, the median home price in Boulder was $969K, up 16.1% compared to last year (source: âBoulder Housing Market: House Prices & Trendsâ).
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