"Isn't this a bit much?" a Volokh blogger asks, referring to the lock Harvard and Yale have on Supreme Court chairs

The president went to Harvard, and barely defeated a primary opponent who went to Yale. His predecessor went to Yale and Harvard, and defeated opponents who went to Harvard. The previous two presidents also went to Yale, with Bush I defeating another Harvard grad for the presidency. And once Elena Kagan gets confirmed, every Supreme Court Justice will have attended Harvard or Yale law schools.

I know that Harvard and Yale attract a disproportionate percentage of America’s talented youth, but still, isn’t this a bit much? Are there no similarly talented individuals who attended other Ivy League schools, other private universities or (gasp!) even state law schools?

The athor of this post is David Bernstein (from Yale):

From Normblog: David Bernstein is a native of Queens, N.Y. After attending Brandeis University and Yale Law School, he joined the faculty of the George Mason University School of Law in 1995, where he is now Foundation Professor. His books include Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal, You Can't Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws, and the forthcoming Rehabilitating Lochner. David lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife and two daughters. He blogs at The Volokh Conspiracy.