Passing the Bible but not the Bar...

Great observations from Kevin Drum at the Washington Monthly on a little-noted angle of the U.S. attorney scandals, better known as "Purgegate." Who knew that the Bush administration was larding up the civil rights department at Justice with inexperienced graduates of Pat Robertson's Regent University? The Boston Globe article Drum links to notes that in 1999, the year former Justice official Monica Gooding graduated, 60 percent of the graduating class failed the bar on the first try...