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You give her way too much credit. I've never taken the bar exam, but, based on having known some very stupid lawyers I am guessing several things:
Habba is just clearly stupid. I don't know why people are suggesting anything else.
She even essentially admitted as much.
As a dear friend of mine likes to say "Someone had to graduate at the bottom of the class."
1 and 2 are more likely. It's pretty damn hard to bribe your way past the bar, you'd have to pay a lot of people and trust none of them care about their careers or potentially getting prosecuted.
Maybe, but this is also America, where you can do practically anything you want if you're rich.
I'm actually curious how you'd even do it logistically. There's like three separate sets of people minimum for the tests, a whole anonymous grading system you'd have to game somehow and for that I'm pretty sure the person grading doesn't know the number of the paper they're grading, and then the actual admissions committee. I guess you could just bribe the admissions committee and have them fake a result but, again, there's a separate national multistate test whose results get factored in. Maybe pay someone to take the test for you but the chances they get caught are...medium.
The more I think about it, it's actually easier to just memorize law and pass the bar.
Look at Boebert and Sarah Palin. Neither is a scholar, but both won office. If you use what you have to get what you want, you're smart in my book. I wouldn't want her as my lawyer, but she'll probably end up a TV pundit with a six figure salary.
Imma just remove all these replies under rule 3, come on guys, you're both too smart for internet slap fighting. :)
You missed one!!
I kid. Thanks for the service.
Imma just remove all these replies under rule 3, come on guys, you're both too smart for internet slap fighting. :)
Interesting how some people take so much pride in their ignorance.
As for you not responding anymore, I'm dubious, but we'll see.
Those toddlers just need to be smarter than their parents to get what they want....
They really don't. They just need to know how to use cuteness as a weapon. That and whining.
I mean that's just instinct and evolution. No conscious thought required.
That was sort of my point. You don't have to be smart to get what you want.
Bobo and Caribou Barbie aren't lawyers though... which kind of strays from the topic of "dumb lawyers".
I do still wonder how Jack Thompson passed the bar... but Habba, Giuliani, Eastman, Powell and Wood make me think anyone could do it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)
I snorted milk out my nose. Just saying.
Look. These people didn't get the job on their skill but on the light drama they create while doing whatever they've been told to do to further their own success.
Just like another poster noted, that some have to graduate at the bottom of their class, the pool of scummy politicos on their last career option must be deep enough they could pick two with marketability and malleability to be a success as a conservative talking head.
Didn't come up with those, but it bears reposting.
I'm paraphrasing badly, but Einstein said that if measure intelligence by how well a species climbs trees, dolphins would be considered idiots.