In Reply to: Collom lead inches ahead to 2, 010* posted by mh on November 06, 2026 at 11:50:46
Attorneys and legal scholars are sounding the alarm after a massive scandal rocked Arkansas, where a former court official allegedly manipulated bar exam scores for years, allowing some applicants to pass while causing others to fail.
“Wow,” Texas A&M law professor Alex Nunn wrote on X.
“For years, an official in Arkansas allegedly tampered with bar exam scores, pulling points from some test takers and giving them to others,” Nunn wrote, pointing to at least one case in which someone who should have passed instead failed.
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Attorney Leah Goodridge raised another possibility, questioning whether racial bias played a role.
“Check the racial demographics of the bar exam takers whom she took points away from,” she wrote on X. "This IS the Deep South."