Vice President Kamala Harris (a graduate of the University of California, Hastings College of Law) failed the California bar exam on her first try.
The Former First Lady Michelle Obama – (a graduate of Harvard Law School) failed the Illinois bar exam on her first try.
Secretary of State and past Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton failed the DC bar exam the first time she took it. She passed the Arkansas bar after that.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt failed the New York bar exam on his first try after attending Harvard College and Columbia Law School . . . and he was subsequently elected President four times!
John F. Kennedy, Jr. failed the New York bar exam twice before passing it on his third try.
Several Governors have failed the bar exam.
Former California Governor, Pete Wilson, failed the California bar exam three times before passing it on his fourth try.
Two-time governor of California, Jerry Brown, also failed the bar exam.
Several Mayors have failed the bar exam (some more than once!), including New York mayor, Ed Koch; Chicago Mayor, Richard Daley, and Los Angeles Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa.
Notice the theme... Democrats. They make for bad lawyers and bad politicians.
Pete Wilson was Republican.
My cousin Vinny Gambini failed the bar I think six times!
In all fairness, almost all of these politicians graduated from a “national” law school like Harvard, Yale, Columbia, NYU, Cal-Berkley (Hastings), etc. Graduates of national law schools tend to have lower first time bar passage rates than regional law schools because unlike regional law schools, the national law schools do not teach the law of any particular state.
I graduated from a well-respected regional law school (at least it was until it went DEI/Woke), and passed the bar on my first attempt. Although none of the first year courses were state specific, many higher level courses focused on local law.
My law school had a first time pass rate (back then) of about 92% compared to the state average of approximately 70%. That’s why I went there. I needed a law job and couldn’t afford to waste another three months studying for the bar exam, again.
Ted Kennedy - he never passed a bar...without stopping in for a few pops.
Pete Wilson was a "Republican," but a total RINO.
Once CA approves reading for the law the bar exam is dead.
It is a difficult exam. Failing it once isn’t that shameful of a thing.
Failing it multiple times is a red flag.