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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess being Jewish and having gone to Harvard is what it takes to get ahead these days.

This may be good news for Trump - just one more indication to his expanding base that Obama/Clinton are completely aligned with the Boston-Washington power elite. [/quote]

his daughter is jewish and went to wharton.

his son-in-law is jewish and went to harvard.

not sure what you are getting at here.[/quote]

It just reiterates the continued exclusion of Protestants and those who haven't gone to elite law schools from the Supreme Court.  You'd have four Jews and five Catholics on the court, all products of Harvard, Yale or Columbia Law School.  Their life experiences have very little in common with the growing number of Americans who feel completely disenfranchised and shut out under Obama, and strongly believe things would be no different with Hillary.  [/quote]

I understand the concern with too little diversity on the Court (I'm a Catholic and think there are too many Catholics on the Court now -- it's a little ridiculous.)  But I TOTALLY don't get the concern with having jurists that went to the best law schools.  I'm from a middle or working class family from fly-over nowheres-ville.  I worked hard and studied and went to one of those law schools.  And, while there were lots of ritzy folks from Manhattan there, there were also plenty of regular folks from all sorts of walks of life there.  Should we pass by the people with the best credentials and take people from inferior law schools just because we're looking for "regular folk"?  I mean, honestly, would you want "regular folk" performing brain surgery on you?  No, you would want the person that trained at Harvard or Hopkins or wherever fancy brain surgeons train.  We have a system whereby "regular folk" get input into the government -- that's called elections.[/quote]

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