Posted on 04/16/2023 3:18:05 PM PDT by CFW
That incident at Stanford has really brought attention to this issue. It’s great to see people responding.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
"The state of Texas is updating its bar application to include questions about whether applicants have engaged in “incivility and violations of school policies,” according to a letter from the Texas Supreme Court obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The change is a direct response to an incident at Stanford Law School last month in which students shouted down a federal judge.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) wrote to the bar in March suggesting the change, arguing that Stanford Law School graduates should “be made to answer, in writing, whether they participated in the shameful harassment” of Fifth Circuit appellate judge Kyle Duncan, who was subjected to vulgar heckling when he attempted to deliver prepared remarks. The bar responded in early April, indicating that it planned to ask all applicants “directly” about their involvement in disruptive protests."
(Excerpt) Read more at legalinsurrection.com ...
Not sure why they expect the students to be more honest than the school they attended.
How does that affect schools where such mob action IS school policy? That seems to be most of them. Considering that all law sudents are required to take Critical Legal Studies courses which is learning how to use the law to defeat the law, what difference does it make?
A firm would have to be nuts to hire a lawyer from ‘WOKE’ Stanford ...
Wake me up when Texas secedes so I can move there.
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In my opinion a "firm" belt across their rear anatomy when growing up would have solved this problem.
My law school was often referred to as Berkeley East. There should be a clause in bar admissions oaths of each state that requires the entering lawyer to admit that the 1st Amendment applies to all speech. It’s astonishing how many lawyers refer to “hate” speech as non-protected. Who would they make the arbiters of the contours of “hate” speech? There are many reasons to be embarrassed by my profession - but the woke/leftist bent of the law schools and national professional organizations (ABA, for example) is just disgusting.
Not sure how useful the actual questions will end up being, since “incivility” is subjective, and “violations of school policies” depend on policies set by leftist schools. Not quite as secure as asking someone if they are or ever have been a member of the communist party.
My daughter took and passed the Unified Bar Exam. It covers her in 26 states.
Her office is in Seattle. She’s always on the road to some litigation in some state.
Yes...good point.
I’m thinking they need to ask some “conservative” questions and some “liberal” questions. Students should be aware of the other side of the argument.
Hmm...the sample tests I’m seeing are multiple choice. Back in the day, there was a fair amount of essay (I never took it but I had a friend in Louisiana who did).
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Doesn’t my right to free speech include a right to shut you down so I don’t have to listen to nonsense you have to say. Speech is not free if I can’t not hear nonsense. Surely your freedom stops at my auditory and neural networks.
In before Lyin Ted.
You can exercise your right not to hear by leaving or ignoring the speaker. You may not abrogate the right of others to hear the message you disagree with. That is tyranny. This is really fundamental, simple stuff. I’m frankly surprised at you.
Your sarcasm detector is off.
I think Andy’s post was sarcasm...
What about my constitutional right not to be offended?
I considered that. but it didn’t read like sarcasm to me.
It would be easier to check for libtardism and filter out all the nazis
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