Delaware lowers passing score on bar exam in pursuit of the new holy trinity of diversity, equity and inclusion, so don’t hire a lawyer who graduated from Delaware Law School

Sources:  https://www.foxnews.com/us/delaware-lowers-passing-score-bar-exam-push-for-racial-diversity-not-supposed-be-barrier; https://courts.delaware.gov/forms/download.aspx?id=183288

          If you thought lawyers were dumb, well, they’re about to get dumber, in Delaware anyway.  And that’s a pretty hefty lift seeing as our own President Biden, maybe the dumbest President ever, supposedly graduated from Delaware Law School decades ago.  So that school is actually going to go from dumb to dumber. 

In the name of the holy trinity of diversity, equity and inclusion, the Delaware Supreme Court has, among other tinkerings, lowered the passing score on the state’s bar exam.  Other changes include offering the 200-question multiple-choice exam twice instead of once a year.  “The number of essays on the exam will be decreased from eight to four, and the number of essay topics will be reduced from 14 to 10.  The clerkship requirement is also being lowered from 21 weeks to 12 weeks, and the mandatory list of 25 legal proceedings that potential lawyers must attend has been shortened to 18 out of 30 possible items.”

          As reported by Fox, “Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz Jr. pushed back against any assertion that they reflect a ‘lowering of standards’ and referred to them as a ‘modernization’ of the admission process aimed at aligning with the standards in other states.  Seitz, who began the diversity project that led to a report that suggested changes to the exam, maintained that such revisions will enhance competitiveness in attracting legal talent to the state that serves as a hub of business litigation, according to Reuters.”

          But get this – the Chief Justice also said that “[t]he bar exam is not supposed to be a barrier to entering the profession but is supposed to be a test of an applicant’s ability to successfully practice law in Delaware. . . . “

          Well, if the bar exam isn’t supposed to be a barrier to keep unqualified people from getting a law license, then we don’t know what it is supposed to be.  Left unexplained is exactly how dumbing down the exam along with other changes is supposed to be a more accurate indicator of “an applicant’s ability to successfully practice law in Delaware.”  Not to mention reducing the number of essays and essay topics, and attendance at legal proceedings, all of which would seem to cut against the claim that the exam would then be a more accurate indicator of an applicant’s ability to practice law in Delaware. The inverse would appear to most people to be true, not this nonsensical lawyer-babble obviously aimed purely at political correctness and dodging pressure from identity interest groups.  That is, the result will be that Delaware lawyers are less qualified than they already are. That’s progress for you.