David Souter Retiring, Obama gets to make first SCOTUS pick

[Kevin]

Oh, don't get me wrong, I really have no problem with sticking with Justices who went to highly selective schools. I just think that the claim that anyone values "diversity" while only considering people whose lives have been substantially similar since around their 18th birthdays is a tad two-faced.

It's the notion that apparently here, in this process, different race and only different race = diversity.

-- and actually no, I hadn't seen that piece in the Times.

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by Kevin

I just think that the claim that anyone values "diversity" while only considering people whose lives have been substantially similar since around their 18th birthdays is a tad two-faced.

I wouldn't say that their lives have been the same since their 18th birthdays--although they have been educated at the same institutions, there seems to be enough difference in ideology, personal background, and experience before the Court to indicate that they're not all the same.

I'm not in the law world, but it looks to me that if you have very specific career goals in mind, where you go is really important--whether it's your local university or Harvard Law. Is that true?