On 21 May 2025, the family and friends of media mogul, Kim Kardashian, took to Instagram to share news that the star had graduated from law school. Kardashian herself has been sharing her passion for criminal justice reform with fans for years through her reality TV show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
“All of you have been on this journey with me. It started with the Twitter video that I saw that popped up and I was just dumbfounded”, said Kardashian
She has publicly spoken about failing the bar three times in her pursuit of a law degree. Despite of the failures however, she said she has been involved in criminal justice reform since 2018.
THE STORY OF ALICE JOHNSON
On 28 August 2020, Alice Marie Johnson received a presidential pardon on her sentence related to a drug offense. According to Johnson, this was after a series of events where the media mogul got to know of her story and began working towards getting her released from prison.
Through criminal justice initiatives, Kardashian approached president Donald Trump about Johnson’s case. At the time, Johnson had served 21 years in prison.
Today Johnson runs a criminal reform project, where according to her website, she continues to get deserving women out of jail. In an interview with Fox News, Johnson credited the new law graduate for assisting her to make her efforts successful.
“I can always depend on her, that if I’m running into a brickwall, that she will help”, said Johnson.
MORE IN STORE FOR KARDASHIAN
Speaking at Kardashian’s graduation ceremony that was held in her backyard, CCN journalist Van Jones, said when the star started this journey, it was a lonely road.
“Seven years ago when you were working on criminal justice, you were not embraced by anyone”, said Jones.
“You were working with people who were thrown away by their own families. You were working with people who were literally just one step from the grave. There’s no place to be in society except the graveyard, than to be thrown away in a prison cell for years and years”, he continued.
Jones said with her newly acquired degree, Kardashian was about to be unstoppable.
“She helped reunite families and brought national attention to the most broken parts of our legal system. Now she does so not with just passion and determination but with six years of legal training”, Jones concluded.
WOULD YOU CONTINUE PURSUING A DEGREE AFTER FAILING THREE TIMES, AND WHY?
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