The best scholars go to the best schools. That's just a fact that cannot be denied. Think back to your HS days and tell me where the smartest kid in the class went to college. SMU? I doubt it.
Every year, someone graduates number one from Stanford Law School. Every year, several graduate summa cum laude from Harvard Law. And Yale. And Columbia. Every year, there is an editor of the Law Review at NYU. And at Penn, and Virginia and Northwestern. After several years, we find thousands of these distinguished students accumulated in the legal profession. Many become brilliant lawyers, many become brilliant law professors and many become brilliant judges. Most federal appellate judges, whether liberal or conservative, have excellent academic credentials. And so do the justices appointed to the USSC. Roberts, Harvard. Thomas, Yale. Souter, Harvard. Stevens, Northwestern. Scalia, Harvard. O'Connor, Stanford. Kennedy, Harvard. Breyer, Stanford. Ginsburg, Harvard. (Rehnquist, Stanford.) Every one of these justices has distinguished themselves academically by finishing first in their class, editing their Law Review, clerking for Supreme Court justices or receiving awards and post graduate scholarships to Oxford and other institutions.
So how does Miers stack up with these legal scholars? You tell me. |
