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OP - have you revised any of your assumptions yet? [/quote]

Why would you think this list would make anyone revise their assumption that you need to go to a top law school to be successful?  Some of these people are from long ago (e.g., Marshall and Darrow), many have excelled in fields other than law (e.g., Biden, McConnell, Harris), some of them went to elite law schools that just aren't associated with colleges that are part of the Ivy League (e.g., Scheck, Mueller and Harper).  And some of the rest are outliers.  Bill Gates dropped out of college; that doesn't make not attending college a great plan for most people.

Here are the law schools of Biden's nominees to the federal circuit courts:  Harvard, Duke, Harvard, Yale, Suffolk, Yale, Columbia, Chicago, Cornell, Virginia, Memphis, Yale, Yale, Harvard, Yale, Yale, Cal-Hastings, Tulane.

[b]So that's 14 of 18 who went to one of the Top 14 law schools in the country, which are the elite law schools.[/quote]

33% Yale[/b].[/quote]

Yale law school incubated the Federalist Society which engineered conservative takeover of the Supreme Court (thanks for nothing Yale) … The conservative led court is undermining hard won women’s rights and  voting rights from non white minorities. The conservative led court made other anti democratic decisions (e.g. voting 5-4 along party lines to hand presidential election to Yale law grad George W Bush Jr after reversing Florida Supreme Court order for a recount  and allowing corruptive influence of dark money in Citizen United decision. They don’t even pretend to not be biased anymore - Justice Clarence Thomas recently attended Heritage Foundation event with Dark Lord Mitch McConnell.

The Uber conservative current Supreme Court voted 6-3 to tear a gaping hole in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Citing non existent voter fraud to make it harder for poor brown people to have their votes counted, the right wing ideologues are running the show now. What next? Upholding rights of children to arm themselves at school?

Once again, thanks for nothing Yale.

I’ll be impressed by graduates of Ivy law schools when they create a viable intellectual alternative to the Federalist Society and restore political balance to the Supreme Court.

It will probably be up to super smart law grads from big public schools to take the lead in taking back the Supreme Court (nine unelected elite lawyers) in order to uphold democratic values and public goods for all Americans (women, PoC, middle and working classes).[/quote]

Plus one

True success = serving Public goods.

Get cracking Ivy League lawyers and use your advantages and blessings in life to help others … and not with rhetorical self serving BS and self perpetuating power structures .., [/quote]

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