Jerry Falwell's Liberty University is starting a law school. I'm sure it'll be every bit as rigorous as Pat Robertson's law school. How rigorous is that? Well, out of 184 law schools ranked, they're 177th in the percentage of students passing the bar the first time and 178th in overall program achievement.
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