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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Not surprising, everything about her is pathetic.
We all know how she got in.
The question is how many.
Typical far-left freeloader. Not presidential material. Needs to go back to escort service for mayors.
That makes sense. Hijack victim-hood and feign poverty to gain entitlement and a medal.
I’d suggest a LOT of Sacramento movers and shakers are the same, victims and very stupid activists.
And she became a Presidential candidate she didn’t qualify for.
McDonalds scholarship? 😂😂😂😂
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”
Clarence Thomas wasn’t on a federal court until 1990. He was nominated to the Supreme Court in July 1991. Not sure the timeline adds up for this anecdote. Anyway, if there was some shortcut or benefit to be had, by hook or by crook, I’m sure kamala took advantage of it.
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She’s a friggin silver spooner posing as a “poor black child.” Typical Marxist RAT affirmative action freeloader.
The PHONINESS and the LIES just keep getting BIGGER and BIGGER!!
Sounds like Ma Squaw.
Harris got her Law Degree in 1989.
Then she would have been eligible to be on the BLSA committee, while working as Assistant DA in SF which she began in 1990............
DEI before DEI was cool
Yes, like Obama. Got in on a scholarship for foreign students, claiming to be Indonesian. Then got made the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review....without a single article ever being published under his byline. A totally manufactured fraud.
Obama's communist background was more covert but Kamala’s father was a “world renowned” communist “economic theorist” at Stanford University so the skids were greased for these two to sail through our elite Left Wing school system with no worries about admission standards or actually having to work hard to graduate.
Same with Chelsea Clinton.
Stanford Profs literally competed for the honor to have her attend their classes and most Profs pretty much gave her top marks as their most sincere thank you for finding them worthy to be selected as her teacher and being allowed to bask in the glow of her awesomeness. .
Not one step she has taken between Canada and her last campaign ‘event’ is legitimate or the result of any merit or accomplishment of HER OWN!
Advancing in life on the basis of the advantages of your ‘person’ is the oldest profession in the world...there’s an ugly word for it
Everything about obama and K are too much in sync.
She was reserved and didn’t say much but did she cackle?
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