{"id":3137,"date":"2010-05-13T17:11:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T21:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2010-05-13T17:11:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T21:11:35","slug":"harvard-yale-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/05\/13\/harvard-yale-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;ll Never Be A Supreme Court Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Washington Post&#8217;s Valerie Strauss points out, the U.S. Supreme Court is packed with graduates of <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/answer-sheet\/yale-and-harvard-at-the-suprem.html\">Harvard Law and Yale Law:<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Assuming President Obama wins confirmation of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, that august body will be exclusively filled with judges who earned their law degrees at Harvard or Yale. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Strauss thinks such exclusivity is a bad idea and, as you can tell from this limerick,  so do I:<\/p>\n<p>Why I&#8217;ll Never Be A Supreme Court Justice<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Supremes have to hail<br \/>\nFrom the law schools of Harvard or Yale.<br \/>\nMy law school&#8217;s St. John&#8217;s.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s just one of my &#8220;cons.&#8221;<br \/>\nPlus I&#8217;m sixty &#8212; I might as well bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Washington Post&#8217;s Valerie Strauss points out, the U.S. Supreme Court is packed with graduates of Harvard Law and Yale Law: Assuming President Obama wins confirmation of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, that august body will be exclusively filled with judges who earned their law degrees at Harvard or Yale. Strauss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[885,1291,10,2,168,424,13],"tags":[1303,2879,1298,1304,1226,1302,1296,1300,373,1301,1089,1299],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-limerick","category-elena-kagan","category-judiciary","category-law","category-legal-limericks","category-personal","category-supreme-court","tag-education-humor","tag-elena-kagan","tag-harvard","tag-ivy-league","tag-judiciary-humor","tag-law-degree-humor","tag-law-satire","tag-law-schools","tag-legal-humor","tag-resume-humor","tag-us-supreme-court","tag-yale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3141,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}