host: dave is calling from bresmville in ohio. what would you like to say or ask? caller: top of the morning to you. i would like to basically just bring up one point. why are all the supreme court justices part of the ivy league? either from harvard or princeton or cornell or whatever. why don't we have to go along with a justice that's other than the ivy league? host: what is the breakdown in terms of college? and why do you think people think that's important? est: it is true that the supreme court is probably one of the most elitist institutions in the country if not the most. not just the justices but most of the law clerks who come to the court every year, who are young recent law school graduates. nearly all come from the top law schools and there have been some complaints in the past that that leads to a lack of on the court in terms the law clerks and also the justices themselves because a lot of them come from the same kind of ivory tower kind of background. some of the justices do make more of an effort than others to try to overcome that by hiring law c

host: dave is calling from bresmville in ohio. what would you like to say or ask? caller: top of the morning to you. i would like to basically just bring up one point. why are all the supreme court justices part of the ivy league? either from harvard or princeton or cornell or whatever. why don't we have to go along with a justice that's other than the ivy league? host: what is the breakdown in terms of college? and why do you think people think that's important? est: it is true that the supreme court is probably one of the most elitist institutions in the country if not the most. not just the justices but most of the law clerks who come to the court every year, who are young recent law school graduates. nearly all come from the top law schools and there have been some complaints in the past that that leads to a lack of on the court in terms the law clerks and also the justices themselves because a lot of them come from the same kind of ivory tower kind of background. some of the justices do make more of an effort than others to try to overcome that by hiring law c