Obviously, not having a formal higher education worked well for President Lincoln and the others. So why is it so important to Howard Dean and the rest of the media azzhats?
I’m guessing most of our laws were much simpler in those days, not to mention the fact there were fewer of them.
I think there was still a Bar in Illinois.
I am not sure you have to have a JD to sit for the Bar nowadays. I could be wrong.
As long as you could pass a certifying exam back in the day, it did not matter how you learned the information, whether self-taught or otherwise, you passed, you could practice law. The only reason Howard Dean is making it a deal is because he is arguing that since Scott Walker hasn’t completed a degree, he doesn’t know basic information about what is going on in the world or some other random BS.