Look at what has happened to the once Gold Standard of education...
Brett Kavanaugh is not the only one whose reputation is on display. The difference is that Kavanaugh will very soon reclaim his good rep.
The American “higher” education system is another story.
It is dying with a horrible metastasizing cancer.
I hope this entire reprehensible situation will serve to “diversify” the way Supreme Court justices choose their law clerks. For far too long — and I suspect that Appeals Court judges including Kavanaugh have been complicit in this — there has been this tendency to choose the vast majority of their law clerks from the Ivy schools of law.
Well, perhaps one consequence of this farce will be that justices will open their eyes a little wider and realize that not all the high IQ law students in this country go to the Ivies. There are brilliant students at most law schools in this country. The sad thing is that no one even gives them a chance at the clerkships.
Even Kavanaugh talked about the boost to your career these clerkships are.
I just hope he uses the situation to figure out ways he can work to get rid of the toxic political environment that allowed such a travesty of justice. And I think the best and fastest way would be to cast a wider net — a much wider net — next time he goes fishing for clerks.