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April 30, 2024

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Bar exam pass rates rebound after COVID slump

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Pass rates on the February 2024 bar exam are trending up, following what has been a multi-year slide in many states, Karen Sloan reports. Among the 42 jurisdictions that have reported February results thus far, 31 have a higher overall pass rate than in February of 2023 according to data compiled by the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

Bar exam tutor Sean Silverman said on Tuesday that pass rates are slowly returning to their pre-COVID-19 pandemic norms. But he cautioned against toasting this year’s increases, given that many states posted overall pass rates below 50%. Read more about the pass rates.

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Judge fines Trump $9,000, threatens jail for contempt in hush money trial

Trump in court, April 30, 2024. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/Pool

Justice Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing Donald Trump‘s criminal hush money trial, fined the former president $9,000 for contempt of court on Tuesday and said he would consider jailing him if he continued to violate a gag order.

The trial so far has featured testimony from former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, who told jurors he used his supermarket tabloid to suppress negative stories about Trump ahead of the 2016 election. The paper, for example, paid for former Playboy model Karen McDougal‘s story of an alleged affair with Trump but did not publish it, a tabloid practice known as “catch and kill.” Lawyer Keith Davidson, who represented McDougal, testified on Tuesday that he understood he would be helping Trump’s campaign by selling her story to the Enquirer, rather than other media outlets.

The criminal case is one of four pending against Trump, but could be the only one to go to trial and result in a verdict before the election. Trump has pleaded not guilty.

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