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TOO MANY IVY LEAGUERS? Walter Shapiro writes: This is one of those moments when you sense that A?

By Glenn Reynolds

TOO MANY IVY LEAGUERS? Walter Shapiro writes:

This is one of those moments when you sense that American democracy is more of a rigged game than they taught you back in high school civics classes. Few object to a meritocracy in which people, regardless of family backgrounds, are judged by what they have accomplished in life. But should that binding decision have been made by the admissions committees at two law schools when the applicants were still in their early 20s? Imagine a guidance counselor shouting, “Future Supreme Court justices over here. Everyone else, best of luck with your legal careers ? if you don’t aim too high.”

Once the criterion was Harvard, Yale or bust, it was almost inevitable that Elena Kagan, the former dean of guess-what-law-school, would have been tapped for the Supreme Court. This is not an exaggeration. Let’s do the math together. . . . Because the enduring motto of the Supreme Court remains ? equal justice under law from Harvard and Yale.

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