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THE SUPREME COURT?S DIVERSITY PROBLEM: Just the tip of the iceberg? Following Elena Kagan?s no?

By Glenn Reynolds

THE SUPREME COURT’S DIVERSITY PROBLEM: Just the tip of the iceberg?

Following Elena Kagan?s nomination, a few people are waking up to a rather startling reality: In what is supposed to be a new era of American openness, egalitarianism, and diversity, Harvard and Yale grads are dominant. If Kagan is confirmed, every single member of the Supreme Court will have attended Harvard or Yale. But that?s not all. Harvard Law grad Barack Obama beat Yale grad Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination and then became president. Yale grad George W. Bush beat Yale grad John Kerry and Harvard grad Al Gore. Yale grad Bill Clinton beat Yale grad George H. W. Bush. In fact, you have to go back a full generation, to Eureka College?s finest, Ronald Reagan, for America?s last non-Ivy president.

Though hardly an argument against going beyond Harvard and Yale.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 13, 2010 (boomark / email).