Kim Kardashian West is studying to become a lawyer
As with most things to do with the Kardashians, you’ve doubtlessly absorbed the news (whether you wanted to or not) that Kim played a role in the release last summer of Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old woman who’d been in an Alabama prison on a nonviolent drug charge since 1996, and whose case Kim had learned about through social media. After President Trump met with her, the CNN commentator and activist Van Jones, and several lawyers, he granted Johnson clemency and then invited her to his State of the Union Address in February. What you probably don’t know is that Kim has been working with Jones and the attorney Jessica Jackson, cofounders of #cut50, a national bipartisan advocacy group on criminal-justice reform, for months, visiting prisons, petitioning governors, and attending meetings at the White House. And last summer, she made the unlikely decision—one she knew would be met with an eye roll for the ages—to begin a four-year apprenticeship with a law firm in San Francisco, with the goal of taking the bar in 2022.
“I had to think long and hard about this,” she says, gleefully devouring chile con queso with chips now that her Vogue shoot is over. What inspired her to embark on something so overwhelmingly difficult and time-consuming—even as she also runs a multimillion-dollar beauty enterprise—was the combination of “seeing a really good result” with Alice Marie Johnson and feeling out of her depth. “The White House called me to advise to help change the system of clemency,” she says, “and I’m sitting in the Roosevelt Room with, like, a judge who had sentenced criminals and a lot of really powerful people and I just sat there, like, Oh, shit. I need to know more. I would say what I had to say, about the human side and why this is so unfair. But I had attorneys with me who could back that up with all the facts of the case. It’s never one person who gets things done; it’s always a collective of people, and I’ve always known my role, but I just felt like I wanted to be able to fight for people who have paid their dues to society. I just felt like the system could be so different, and I wanted to fight to fix it, and if I knew more, I could do more.”
Jones had been collaborating with Jackson on building bipartisan unity around the need to “shrink the incarceration industry,” and with folks on the other end of the political spectrum, like Newt Gingrich and the American Conservative Union. And it was working. Then, says Jones, Trump “runs and wins on this law-and-order, Blue Lives Matter platform, and he gives an inauguration speech with his American-carnage line, making it seem like he’s going to unleash police and prisons everywhere.”
And then the unexpected happened. “Kim Kardashian,” says Jones, “wound up playing this indispensable role, and a lot of people have gotten furious with me, saying I’m stealing the credit from African American activists who have been working on this issue for decades. And first of all, I’m one of them. But I was in the Oval Office with Kim and Ivanka and Jared and the president, and I watched with my own eyes Trump confess to having tremendous fears of letting somebody out of prison and that person going and doing something terrible, and the impact that that would have on his political prospects. He was visibly nervous about it. And I watched Kim Kardashian unleash the most effective, emotionally intelligent intervention that I’ve ever seen in American politics.”
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Not here in California she doesn't.
A friend told me about a guy he knew who (29 at the time) told him that if he cared to, he could read and brush up on Law at home, on the net and at his local law library, then take the bar exam and pass it IF he wanted to. My friend told me that the guy was extremely smart to the point of graduating from High School at 16 (He got 1600 on his SAT scores), and was excepted to attend several of the top universities around this country (Stanford, USC, Cal Berkley to name a few), and he taught himself to speak 5 languages (Mandarin Chinese was one of those languages). My friend said he was thinking that while he's extremely bright, he's gonna ace the Ca. Bar Exam on the strength of merely studying all things law on his off-time on the net, at home and from reading and checking books out from his local law library? Nope, he must be an insane genius 
Fast forward to 2 years later, and after all of the guy's various methods of 'studying' during a 2 year period, he took and PASSED the California Bar Exam in one try. He's not a practicing attorney (Been offered law an apprenticeship help, internship help etc. because he was really RAW), but as my friend said, he's a "bad ass Einstein" type of guy who enjoys his own company. Has TONS of energy & a photographic memory who should be in MENSA contributing to society. But instead, he LOVES pissing people off and astounding them because they didn't think he COULD do (Fill in the blank as to things people didn't think he could do even though a genius).
My friend changed jobs and lost touch with this guy around 5 years ago, but ran into a relative of his who said that he moved to New York and is ...
A manager @ Bloomingdale's. The guy PASSED the California Bar on his first attempt, and is a manager in the men's section at Bloomies 
Thanks for sharing it, Lena. I've known many near geniuses who have taken interesting paths. 
into college too? Sheesh on a shingle. 
sounds about right. 
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for them being reported.I get called on for jury duty for the dumbest things.
Welcome to DU
Hope she passes the bar exam and everyone poo-pooing her goal has to eat their words.
All the other U.S. lawyers are engaged in defending tRumpie's associates. We're running out of attorneys! 
