State lawmakers early Tuesday called on California’s Supreme Court to reconsider its decision not to apply a new, lower passing score on the bar exam retroactively.

In one of the Legislature’s last acts before adjourning for the year, Assembly members passed a nonbinding resolution urging the justices to extend the passing, or “cut,” score of 139 to anyone who took the exam over the last five years.

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