from SLATE: >After Kagan, All Justices Will Be Harvard or Yale Alums > Assuming Elena Kagan gets the post in the Supreme Court, all of the justices > will have attended Harvard or Yale law schools. The concentration of alums > from these two Ivy League schools is hardly limited to the Supreme Court, of > course. After all, President Obama went to Harvard, and his primary opponent > went to Yale. The previous president went to Yale and Harvard, and, well > President Clinton also went to Yale. "I know that Harvard and Yale attract a > disproportionate percentage of America's talented youth, but still, isn't > this a bit much?" wonders David Bernstein over at the Volokh Conspiracy. "Are > there no similarly talented individuals who attended other Ivy League > schools, other private universities or (gasp!) even state law schools?"
> Read original story in The Volokh Conspiracy > [http://volokh.com/2010/05/10/isnt-this-a-bit-much/] | Monday, May 10, 2010 < -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
