Florida Court: Undoc Immigrant Can’t be Admitted to Bar

By Miranda Leitsinger, NBC News

An undocumented immigrant who applied for a law license in Florida cannot be admitted to the bar, the State Supreme Court said Thursday in a case being watched closely by both sides of the immigration debate.

But the decision, according to legal observers, did not appear to be an actual rejection of the request made by Jose Godinez-Samperio, 26.

Rather, the court indicated it would be deciding on the larger question it had been asked – whether or not to allow people unlawfully in the country to become lawyers — and not on a specific individual case.

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