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After I was admitted to Harvard Law School, I attended orientation. Our 500-strong class was gathered in Memorial Hall, in historic Sanders Theater, where then-Dean Elena Kagan (now Supreme Court Justice) spoke to us. She informed us that the competition was over — we were in! No need to worry about the stuff we’d seen in The Paper Chase — we were all going to leave with degrees and jobs. Not just that — as graduates of Harvard Law, we were destined to rule the universe. She informed us of how many alumni were in the Senate, how many in Congress, how many on the Supreme Court. The battle was over upon our acceptance to the institution. …

Although I am no big fan of Ben Shapiro, his description of how debased Harvard Law was even when he attended is quite horrifying. It was debased long before that too, what with one of their professors actually saying this to Robert Bork:

Your notion that the Constitution is in some sense law must rest upon an obscure philosophic principle with which I am unfamiliar.

This is a great evil and a great curse on the nation.

A very significant percentage of the problems we've encountered and currently have as a nation are attributable to the ‘group think and pomposity’ that Kagan’s comments underscore. We should never have any of our branches of government overrepresented with people from specific institutions.

The very idea that ‘the brightest and the best’ all wind up at (and thus come from) specific institutions is delusional, demonstrably incorrect, and, frankly, comical. Plenty of people from less ‘prestigious’ law schools passed the DC Bar exam the year Hillary failed it - after graduating from Yale Law.

Even more fundamentally flawed is the idea that attending any law school should somehow make you qualified, let alone destined, to ‘rule the universe’. That notion is patently absurd, and dangerous. There are plenty of things that are intellectually more difficult to do than go to law school, but that's not even the point.

The point is that having a ‘political class’, particularly one overrepresented by people with the same pedigree and connections, is antithetical to the concept of a representative government - AND, it contributes heavily to the development of what we are now calling the ‘Deep State’.

You have to experience being around Ivy league students, professors or alumnae to understand how truly despicable they are. That little speech by Kagan about how they are special just because they got in is Exactly what they live by and it only gets worse from there.