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President Bill Clinton quite empathically selected a Cabinet that &amp;#8216;looked like America.&amp;#8217;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;If that were true, more than one wag noted, America must be overwhelmingly populated by Ivy League-educated lawyers.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The same can be said of the Supreme Court, a &amp;#8216;gorgeous mosaic&amp;#8217; of educational diversity that ranges from Yale to Harvard to Yale to Harvard to Stanford to Harvard and beyond (i.e. Columbia).&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, &lt;i&gt;The New York Times &lt;/i&gt;notes that, although the Latina Sonia&amp;nbsp;Sotomayor&amp;#8217;s nomination is groundbreaking, her educational background (Princeton, Yale Law) conforms to the pronounced tilt (especially post-1950) toward Ivy grads in Supreme Court nominations.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Does it matter?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Should anyone care about educational diversity?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The&lt;i&gt; Times &lt;/i&gt;quotes a couple of academics who think so (&amp;#8220;There is both a funneling and homogenizing effect from these schools&amp;#8221;), as well as Fulbright &amp;amp; Jaworski partner &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fulbright.com/laddison&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Linda Addison&lt;/a&gt;(Texas, Texas Law) who goes as far as to say &amp;#8220;Educational diversity would strengthen the court, as have racial, ethnic, gender and religious diversity&amp;#8230; In the future, I also would love to see a nominee from a first-rate public law school.&amp;#8221;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; -posted by brian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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