Justice Mitchell (Alabama): "The New Bar Exam Puts DEI Over Competence."

The Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) has expanded to include "general" legal principles that apply uniformly across the country.

The UBE eliminates the requirement to know any state-specific law.

The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) is preparing the next generation of the exam.

Mitchell: States should push for the option to retain the current exam for at least five to 10 years.

State courts and bar associations should insist that the new exam will be ideologically neutral and blind to race and sex.

Mitchell: State Supreme Courts that adopted the UBE should had given due regard to federalism.