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Edward Markey: “75% are women and minorities [in law school now].”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Published | Video Starts at 10:55

It was like 5% of the class was black and 5% were women. Well, nothing's still law school right now. 75% are women and minorities [in law school now]. Huh. They got smart very fast. It was a discriminatory bias built into the admissions process. When my wife started medical school, 5% were majority of medical students in America. (10:55–10:59)

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Asserts current statistics about the demographic composition of law school classes.

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