Saying that the Supreme Court “chose to duly play its part in a system designed to exclude,” Shandyn Pierce, a member of the UC Hastings College of Law class of 2020, writes a scathing column in The Recorder criticizing the court’s handling of the latest bar exam, which he passed.  He asserts that the Supreme Court’s “unwillingness to retroactively apply the new cut score and equitably handle the bar exam showcase that tradition and precedent are never so important as when those in power have need to justify inequity—and that legal sophistry is a favored complement of injustice.”

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