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Baltimore prosecutor gets rock star treatment
july 13 2015
She described how, after graduating magna cum laude from Tuskegee University, she got wait-listed at every law school to which she applied because of her LSAT scores.
Mosby managed to get around that by calling and requesting interviews with admissions officers to persuade them that "my LSAT score was not indicative of my potential. I was told that it was 'a hopeless effort . . . clearly now is not your time.' "
She ignored the doubters and eventually was admitted into her first choice, Boston College Law School. But she stumbled again when she failed to pass the bar exam on her first try.
"I became relentless in my pursuit to walk in my purpose and with God in the midst of it all, I was determined that I would prevail and that I would one day be in a position to reform the criminal justice system," Mosby said. "And that I would one day be a top prosecutor. And I did.
Have you ever seen an affirmative action beneficiary who wasn't? If they had anything going for them they wouldn't need it in the first place.Explains why she's such an idiot...
Have you ever seen an affirmative action beneficiary who wasn't? If they had anything going for them they wouldn't need it in the first place.
Do we need to fill the justices in? Black students have risen up on campuses across the land, from Yale to the University of Missouri, against casual, institutional racism. It’s worse on the streets. Just on Wednesday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel apologised to the Chicago City Council for police abuse and recalled a young black man asking him whether police would treat him, Rahm, out there in the neighbourhoods the same way they treat him. No! “Now is not the time,” declared Greg Garre, who found himself before the Court this week. He was defending the admissions system at the University of Texas in Austin, which like many other colleges in America tries to use existing legal dispensations to employ affirmative action to increase diversity in its classrooms and thus also give young minority men and women a leg-up in the Lone Star State.
It is those dispensations, which essentially permit a degree of departure from the constitutional guarantee that all must be treated equally under the law, that is under threat as the justices consider a case brought by a young Texan woman named Abigail Fisher, who was denied admission to the University of Texas in 2008 because, she contends, she is white and not black. Few cases will draw more attention than this one in the Court’s current term. A ruling is expected in June, assuming it does not give the case back to lower courts for further consideration. A ruling against the university would almost certainly mark the beginning of the end of affirmative action in colleges everywhere. (Some states, such as California and Michigan, have already outlawed it.)
Reading the tea leaves of any oral arguments at the Supreme Court is a perilous business. But the grilling that Mr Garre got when he was before the justices on Wednesday suggested that the conservatives on the Court are straining to deliver the mortal blow to affirmative action. The university accepts anyone who scores in the top 10 per cent of their high school. That accounts for 75 per cent of its student body. For the other 25 per cent, it weighs many factors when considering applicants – and race is among them. It happens that the 75 per cent who qualify under the top-10 system are already diverse because Texas schools are so segregated – most are either very black or very white.
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