Kamala Harris Failed Her Bar Exam on First Try

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Kamala Harris ******* Her Bar Exam on First Try

Claim:

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris ******* the California bar exam on her first attempt, soon after she graduated law school in 1989.

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Rating: True

Context:

Harris eventually succeeded in the bar exam and was admitted to the California bar in 1990, a year after she graduated law school.

 

In late July 2024, former U.S. President

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during an interview at the National Association of ****** Journalists conference that Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic frontrunner for president, ******* her bar exam. At a campaign rally earlier in the month, Trump also

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Harris was a “lousy student” and “couldn’t pass her bar exams.”

JUST IN: Donald Trump suggests Kamala Harris wouldn’t pass a cognitive test because she “didn’t pass her law exam.”

For whatever reason, the journalists and crowd appeared offended by the comment.

“You know what? She ******* her law exam. She didn’t pass her law exam, so maybe…

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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg)

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A number of posts on X discussed Harris’ credentials,

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why she became a prosecutor and later attorney general of California after having ******* her bar exam.

Harris did fail the California bar exam on her first attempt, but she later passed and was admitted to the California bar in 1990, just a year after she graduated. As such, we rated this claim as “True” with added context.

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is a qualifying written exam administered by a jurisdiction for lawyers to practice law in that particular state.

According to a 2016 New York Times

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of Harris about her Senate campaign, she did fail the bar exam on her first try. Harris described consoling a recent law graduate who did not make it either: “[Harris] ******* the bar exam the first time she took it. Harris says she recently consoled a young law graduate who also didn’t pass; ‘I told her, it’s not a measure of your capacity’.”

Harris was

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to the bar in June 1990, according to the State Bar of California records. She

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from the University of California Hastings school of law in 1989.

The California bar exam has been described as notoriously difficult. According to the

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, there was only a 41.8% pass rate in 1985. In July 1989, also according to the

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, 59.5% of people passed and won the right to practice law from the July 1989 exams, and the pass rate was 72.2% among the 4,909 people taking the exam for the first time. In

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, the likely date Harris took the bar exam for a second time, the pass rate was 45.9%.

Only

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of people passed the February 2024 general bar exam.

Sources:

“Bar Examination.” LII / Legal Information Institute,

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. Accessed 26 July 2024.

Bazelon, Emily. “Kamala Harris, a ‘Top Cop’ in the Era of ****** Lives Matter.” The New York Times, 25 May 2016. NYTimes.com,

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. Accessed 26 July 2024.

“General Bar Examination Pass Rate Summary.” The State Bar of California,

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. Accessed 26 July 2024.

“Kamala Devi Harris # 146672.” Attorney Licensee Search.

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. Accessed 26 July 2024.

Kepley, John. “UC Law SF Congratulates Kamala Harris ’89: California’s next U.S. Senator.” UC Law San Francisco (Formerly UC Hastings), 9 Nov. 2016,

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. Accessed 26 July 2024.

Oliver, Myrna. “41.8% Pass Rate Baffles Experts : Legal Profession Frets as Bar Exam Failures Soar.” Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 1985,

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. Accessed 26 July 2024.

“PASSING THE BAR EXAM.” Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 1990,

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. Accessed 26 July 2024.

“State Bar Releases Results of February 2024 Bar Exam.” The State Bar of California,

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. Accessed 26 July 2024.

“Trump Turns His Focus to Harris at His First Rally after Biden’s Exit from the 2024 Race.” NBC News, 25 July 2024,

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. Accessed 26 July 2024.

“Trump Turns His Full Focus on Harris at His First Rally since Biden’s Exit from the 2024 Race.” AP News, 24 July 2024,

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. Accessed 26 July 2024.

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