Comments on: With Kagan, another round of Ivy League nepotism

By: Jamelle Bouie

Jamelle Bouie — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:17:24 +0000

Haha, that might be the case, but I am going to hope that it isn’t!

By: Susan Donovan

Tue, 11 May 2010 05:17:27 +0000

“A justice from outside the Ivy League might see the legal landscape in ways significantly different from her peers, might find different cases compelling, and might take a different approach to legal reasoning.”

But, you see, this is why someone from that small group hasn’t been chosen by Obama or previous presidents. We don’t want judges to “see things differently”

By: scohart

scohart — Tue, 11 May 2010 01:26:50 +0000

You are only concerned about that type of behavior as it relates to the supreme court? It really goes to show how it doesn’t matter what you know as much as who you know. America really has a caste system……

By: cruss

cruss — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:31:16 +0000

I agree with you 100%.

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Mon, 10 May 2010 20:31:11 +0000

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By: jaybird

jaybird — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:48:50 +0000

What bugs me isn’t even that we have yet another Harvard/Yale kinda person sitting on the court… it’s that, once again, we have someone who has experience on the Solicitor General side (that is, the side of the government) rather than someone (anyone!) who has experience with the Defense.

I would rather have a Justice who Quotes Mao’s Little Red Book who used to work in the Public Defender’s office than any number of “Mainstream” Harvard/Yale types with primarily Prosecutorial experience (again).