[RobbyS]

It's not at all convincing to say, if you follow Will's logic, that a court made up of nine of the country's most eminent, ivy-league pedigreed constitutional scholars is going to be any better for America than a Court composed of justices who have demonstrable talent of varying legal backgrounds and perspectives.

Will is inclined to this sort of snobbery. I didn't even approve of the way he took after Jimmy Carter. The Olympian tone, I mean.

[kabar]

The only thing that Mier's has going for her is that she did not come from an Ivy League law school.

Among the current justices, 5 received their LLBs from Harvard (Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, and Breyer), one from Yale (Thomas), and one from Columbia (Bader-Ginsberg who also attended Harvard Law). O'Connor (Stanford) and Stevens (Northwestern) were the exceptions.