Yale, Harvard Law Taking Over Supreme Court

[Elmore Furth]

Does this mean the 'Northeastern Elite' will have taken control of one branch of the Federal Government if Kagan is confirmed?

Harvard and Yale have officially taken over the nation’s highest court.

As a proud Princetonian, I admit to boasting on occasion that the three most recent Supreme Court nominees have all been fellow tigers. But if you look at the law school pedigrees (which Princeton, alas, does not even offer) on the court, these two other Ivies have been overwhelmingly dominant.

In a new paper, Patrick J. Glen, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, researched the legal educations of Supreme Court justices through time and found a curious pattern. Since 1956, there have never been fewer than three justices from Harvard and/or Yale sitting on the court at any given time. And since 1988, Harvard and Yale alumni together have consistently represented a majority of the court.

If Elena Kagan is confirmed to replace Justice John Paul Stevens, there would be just one member of the entire court who does not have a diploma from either New Haven or Cambridge: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who graduated from Columbia Law.

Yale, Harvard Law Taking Over Supreme Court