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Kamala Harris Got Into Law School Via a Program She Didn't Qualify For
Red State ^ | October 22, 2024 | Jim Thompson |

Posted on 10/22/2024 6:40:23 AM PDT by Red Badger

Kamala Harris graduated from Howard University without honors. Harris then applied to law school. She was admitted to Hastings School of Law at the University of California. Hastings is considered a good law school but not “elite." It ranks 80th of America’s ABA schools.

Admission isn't a "breeze" but it is pretty easy to be accepted for an honors student, with a solid LSAT. Of the total applicants to Hastings, about half are accepted and around a third of that number actually enroll. That means Hasting is a “backup” law school for a lot of the applicants.

She wasn't an honors student at Howard. There is no information on what Kamala Harris scored on her LSAT. We do know that she didn't pass the Bar on the first try when 80 percent of her classmates did pass. So how did a run-of-the-mill student, and daughter of a “privileged” upbringing get into Hastings School of Law?

Easy – she fudged her application. Harris was admitted under a program called LEOP. According to the University:

UC Hastings created the Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP) in 1969 to make an outstanding legal education accessible to those who come from disadvantaged economic and educational backgrounds.

Students are encouraged to submit a “separate LEOP statement describing the adversity they faced and its impact on their academic preparedness for law school. Diagnostic reports documenting disabilities and/or accommodations can be submitted as addenda.”

In a Politico article from 2021, the author describes Harris at Hastings:

In the fall of 1986, Harris arrived on campus at Hastings a week before most of her classmates. She was part of the pre-orientation Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP), which had been founded in 1969 to help law students from disadvantaged communities navigate the stringent demands of the first-year curriculum. Harris had come to a predominantly white institution after four years at a historically Black university. Beyond introducing students to Socratic pedagogy, case-briefing and exam-taking, the pre-orientation also gave students of color a sense of community and a hamlet of solidarity in a cut-throat environment.

Harris, the daughter of two college professors, who grew up attending private schools in Canada, was not, in the least, economically or socially disadvantaged. But there she is, claiming she was.

At the start of the program in the early 70s, new students admitted through LEOP did not fare well. The dropout rate was high, so the school instituted a more “hands-on” routine assigning one-on-one tutors to help navigate law school for LEOP students. On paper, the program wasn’t intended for one of her social position of privilege.

Harris was immersed in Indian culture growing up in Montreal. Her family traveled the world. Her mother was taken aback when a Head Start teacher was “shocked” that Harris wasn’t from the poor side of Oakland. Harris’s mother told him that Kamala was the daughter of privilege. Harris didn’t fit into the intended target demographic that LEOP was designed for – but she fully took advantage of her ethnic heritage. At least one side of it. Once admitted under the program Haris joined the BLSA (Black Law Students Association). Raised by her Indian mother, Harris found more currency in being black.

Students discovered that a bulletin board decorated by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) to commemorate Black History Month had been vandalized with a racist marking: a grotesque caricature of a Black man with a “forbidden” sign slashing his face.

Harris told the Hasting newspaper that “It’s what we deal with all the time”. Apparently, no one was ever identified for the act of racism. 36 years ago, race hoaxes weren’t all the rage.

Although some of her fellow students talked about Harris’s “passion” none spoke of her intellect. One professor said that she was:

“very polite” and “reserved” demeanor, sitting to the far right of the very last row in the auditorium, listening intently but not saying much.

California attorney Laura Powell tracked down other information about Harris while Harris was at Hastings.

During Harris’s time at Hastings, she was, according to her resume, “president” of the BLSA and thus likely sat in judgment of who would get into Hastings via LEOP. Hasting’s dean found out that the committee that selected students was interviewing applicants. He said that he stopped the interview process because it became clear that it wasn't accepting students based on need (or in Harris’s case a lack of need), but based on political leanings.

When he asked a selector about asking political questions He didn’t like the answer:

One student at the meeting said “well we don’t ask those questions; we likely would get Clarence Thomases”

That comment confirmed the Dean’s worst fears. The interview process was stopped but it was obvious that the program was left-leaning and biased.

To get into law school, Harris was a beneficiary of a program that wasn’t intended for someone of her economic or social status. She almost certainly lied on her application or at a minimum knew that her politics would fit with the LEOP selection committee. Harris was “waved in” because of a lie or because of politics. Harris has consistently used the "system" she decries, and she gained positions that she did not deserve and did not earn. She gamed the system.

Not very “equitable” of her, it seems.

Harris reminds me of "The Jerk" and this iconic line:

I was born a poor black child.....


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To: Red Badger

It’s not just that she cheated. She did someone genuinely disadvantaged out of a placement.


21 posted on 10/22/2024 7:17:16 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Red Badger

She is what the DEI thinkers at the law school wanted to create - persons elevated to elite privilege due to their assigned gender, racial or ethnic category and because they had the right political views. She’s been riding that horse ever since.


22 posted on 10/22/2024 7:20:18 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Red Badger

Kamala Harris: no name law school, admitted via DEI, found to have plagiarized as a politician.

Joe Biden: another no name law school, admitted after graduated 76th out of 85, found to have plagiarized as a law student.

contrast: Mitt Romney, Ted Cruz and Barack Obama, Harvard Law; J.D. Vance, Yale Law; and, Tiffany Trump, Georgetown Law.


23 posted on 10/22/2024 7:20:34 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Red Badger

Is this the Giggler’s Fauxcahontas moment?


24 posted on 10/22/2024 7:20:35 AM PDT by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
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To: Red Badger

So she lied her way into law school and blew her way into politics.

What a woman!


25 posted on 10/22/2024 7:20:38 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (It should be illegal to be here illegally. It should be a crime to be committing crimes in the USA.)
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To: Red Badger

Her only qualification is bimbo.


26 posted on 10/22/2024 7:21:58 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Red Badger

“What? It was a program for poor students. I was a poor student!” -KH


27 posted on 10/22/2024 7:27:47 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: 1Old Pro

I bet Maya Harris sat for the Bar in Kamala’s place. Maya is the book smart sister. Kamala is the party Whore.


28 posted on 10/22/2024 7:31:34 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Salman

Life imitates art................

29 posted on 10/22/2024 7:33:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Wuli

>>>She’s been riding that horse ever since.<<<

...Among other things....................


30 posted on 10/22/2024 7:35:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Zathras
We all know how she got in.

After that she assumed an entry level position in Willie Brown's office.

31 posted on 10/22/2024 7:44:38 AM PDT by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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To: Red Badger; Liz

All Socialist Democrats lie. It’s in their DNA.


32 posted on 10/22/2024 7:46:05 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Ahithophel

After that she assumed an entry level position in Willie Brown’s office.


She sat on his staff.


33 posted on 10/22/2024 7:48:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

yup


34 posted on 10/22/2024 7:50:32 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: Redmen4ever

Syracuse University(where Joe went) is ranked number 120 out of 196 for law schools. Yes, it is not Stanford, Harvard or Yale but it is still a pretty good private university.


35 posted on 10/22/2024 7:50:35 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Red Badger

36 posted on 10/22/2024 7:57:10 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Liz

They all do.


37 posted on 10/22/2024 9:11:50 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: Red Badger

CV for Kamala Harris - Sources linked & within below.

1981: 🚩Graduated High School in CANADA, where she grew up since the age of 12.
1981: Attended Vanier College in Montreal, for 1yr.
1982: 🚩Transferred to Howard University, is held back.
1986: Graduated Howard University

🚩 No US Diploma & took 5yrs to complete a 4yr undergraduate degree.

🚩🚩Kamala got into law school through an affirmative action program called the Legal Education Opportunity Program. As the underachieving daughter of Professors, Kamala is a prime example of how AA was abused, and why it is illegal, today.

1987: 🚩#82 Law School in US
1988: 🚩#82 Law School in US
1989: Graduated from it: Hasting College of Law
1990: Staff Lawyer DAs office in Bay Area (all newbies are called eg “Assistant DAs” or “Deputy DAs”, etc.)

🚩FAILED Bar Exam and, after needing a do-over, eventually passed. NOTE: Kamala Harris was a below average law student & only 18% of her UC Hastings law classmates failed the bar that year.

1991: Staff Lawyer
1992: Staff Lawyer, then Employment is terminated.

1993: 🚩Began affair w/Willie Brown, twice her age.

(Finally registered to vote at Age 29, despite telling everyone she was an avid “feedumb” advocate since childhood.)

1994: 🚩Willie appointed her to high-paying job on Unemployment Insurance Board.

🚩Kamala had no Insurance Experience though, so the Press took notice of inappropriately appointing his mistress to public political positions & wrote about it, even in, eg, The Los Angeles Times, etc.

1995: 🚩Kamala quit that Board as Willie appointed her to a different high-paying 1 that required fewer hours & just once a month meetings - CA Medical Asst. Commission.

🚩Yet again, Kamala had no Medical or relevant Legal experience, though. More bad Press shared this truth.

1996: Nothing Else
1997: Nothing Else
1998: Willie sent her back to a Staff Attorney job, managing fine & fee processing, filing at CCU in SF for that DAs Office.

1999: 🚩Caught neglecting to properly file exculpatory evidence in George Gage case—led to 70 year prison sentence. Press was all over it.

2000: 🚩Had to leave there, so Willie sent her to work as a Staff Attorney at SF City Hall, working for city attorney Louise Renne, doing filing for child abuse & neglect cases.
2001: Same
2002: 🚩Lied about Prosecutorial Record. Press was all over it.

(🚩🚩Google Search shows no video, pics or any evidence of Kamala Harris actually prosecuting a case, talking to press after she did, etc., like normal DAs Office Attorneys do, etc., bc she never actually did.)

2003: 🚩NONETHELESS, powerful local politician & Mayor now, Willie Brown, admitted he miraculously helped get Staff Attorney Kamala elected as San Francisco DA!!

2004: 🚩Refused to seek death penalty for cop murderer.
2005: 🚩Refused to release records of sexually abusive Priests.
2006:
2007:
2008:
2009:
2010: Elected as CA AG by 0.5% margin.
2011: 🚩Withheld information leading to 600+ drug-related cases being tossed.
2012: } 🚩Threw 1,500+ people behind
2013: } bars over marijuana offenses
2014: } and refused early release of
2015: } prisoners bc of cheap labor.
2016: Elected to the CA U.S. Senate seat.
2017:
2018: 🚩Chanted “down, down with deportation” at parade w/hoaxter Jussie Smollett.

2019: 🚩Entered 2020 presidential race—dropped out over no support from her own State, due to her publicized abysmal history & lack of real experience.


38 posted on 10/22/2024 9:24:17 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Red Badger

Ohhhh, I see. Thanks for the clarification!


39 posted on 10/22/2024 10:51:49 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Vendome

That was a lot of work to put together! Thank you!


40 posted on 10/22/2024 1:01:04 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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