Perhaps John F. Kennedy was right when, in the course of his commencement address at Yale, he said he now had the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree. It would be a better world if the majority of Kennedy's successors, including President Trump, had nominated Supreme Court justices who were neither graduates of Harvard Law School nor Yale Law School.
That Judge Brett Kavanaugh may soon replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, a fellow in name but not blood to JFK; that Kennedy will leave the Court and thus create a four-to-four tie between Harvard and Yale, with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Columbia University, LLB) as the outlier; that we will have an all-Ivy League Supreme Court is cause for concern, not celebration.
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