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Originally Posted by KSigkid
I don't know if this article prompted your question, but the NY Times talked about this a couple of days ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/us....html?_r=1&hpw .
I don't really have a problem with the Court being limited essentially to Ivy League grads; they're the people who most likely got the high level appellate court/Supreme Court clerkships, they're more likely to have argued before the Court, and they're more likely to get the circuit judge appointments. Do I think there's a time when we may see a Justice from somewhere like the University of Michigan Law or University of Texas Law? I think that will happen at some point. However, I have no problem with it being limited to people from the top 8-12 law schools (and I say that as someone who's at a decent school and has an ultimate dream goal to be a judge on an intermediate state appellate court). |
I read that article, and posted as an item on my Facebook page. I don't have a problem with it either, and I don't see it changing for a while and when it does, it will still be judges from schools like Michigan, UT, and Berkeley.
Did you read the NYT article about Scalia? He basically explained why he doesn't hire clerks who didn't go to a handful of law schools.