'The reading is what really gets me. It’s so time-consuming. The concepts I grasp in two seconds.”
In that meeting, she told Vogue she was able to explain to Trump why Johnson's sentence was unfair. But she said she wanted the legal knowledge to be able to do more to change the criminal justice system and fight for people like Johnson.
Kardashian West first learned about Johnson's case from a Twitter video, and she then got involved with #cut50, an advocacy group working to reduce the number of inmates in prison. One of its founders, CNN commentator Van Jones, praised Kardashian West for convincing Trump to give Johnson clemency.
Kardashian West doesn't have an undergraduate or law degree, but in California a person may become a lawyer if they pass the bar exam after a four-year apprenticeship with a lawyer or judge. And the California bar exam is notoriously difficult:only 41% of people who took the test in July passed, and most of them attended law school. A small number of people attempted the bar after their four years of qualified studying, and less than 3% passed.
But Kardashian West has already shown a knack for legal work, one of the lawyers helping her study told Vogue. After the meeting at the White House, Kardashian West kept working with #cut50, and co-founder Jessica Jackson told Vogue that she was valuable on the team. “She was spending so much time on this,” Jackson told Vogue, “and she would call me at weird hours with questions, and finally I was like, ‘Gosh, you’re helping us with commutations; you’re legitimately helpful on motions and stuff; why don’t you just become a lawyer?’”
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