[Reno89519]

The problem is nominating Easterners who went to Ivy League schools. We need graduates from Western states and mid-West who were raised in rural communities, who own or owned guns, who served in the military, etc.

[Dawgreg]

The problem is nominating Easterners who went to Ivy League schools. We need graduates from Western states and mid-West who were raised in rural communities, who own or owned guns, who served in the military, etc.

Oh my, you touched my heart with that one.....BRAVO!!!!

[Dawgreg]

The problem is nominating Easterners who went to Ivy League schools. We need graduates from Western states and mid-West who were raised in rural communities, who own or owned guns, who served in the military, etc.

Oh my, you touched my heart with that one.....BRAVO!!!!

[irishjuggler]

The problem is nominating Easterners who went to Ivy League schools

Thomas and Alito are both Yale Law, and Alito did his undergrad at Princeton, so the problem isn't Ivy League per se. They're Ivy League, but their backgrounds are not establishment/elite. Thomas' youth spent in poverty in Georgia, Catholic seminary, etc. is anything but establishment. Alito's father was an Italian immigrant and his mother was an Italian American. Both were public school teachers in his youth. Roberts & Kavanaugh, on the other hand, were born and raised establishment/elite. They're Catholics but they may as well have been WASP ruling class. Kavanaugh's grandpa was a Yalie, for crying out loud. Kavanaugh and Roberts both attended elite prep schools, and grew up with the mindset of the establishment/elite.