Maybe it’s time to close down the (California State) bar!
I’m not kidding.
Today, in CalMatters, columnist Dan Walters eviscerates the California State Bar for its latest failure. In summary, he says the Bar botched a new lawyer licensing exam with staggering incompetence. The February 2025 test, meant to save money, imploded with a crashing online platform, error messages, and broken features, stranding aspiring lawyers. This joins California’s shameful legacy of flops—FI$Cal’s endless delays, the court system’s $500 million tech failure, and EDD’s $20 billion fraud debacle. Taxpayers are left holding the bag while the Bar hid its use of AI for exam questions and lowered passing scores to mask the mess. Now suing its vendor, Measure Learning, for fraud, the agency sees its $400,000-a-year director, Leah Wilson, exit in July. Her apology can’t erase this betrayal of public trust. Taxpayers demand accountability—transparent audits, leadership purges, and an end to reckless tech experiments. California’s bureaucracy must deliver competence, not excuses.