Many of the objections are because American instinctively believe in meritocracy and cronyism immediately rubs the wrong way.
The burden on the crony is high and here nowhere near reached.
No, qualification has been established.
The elites have to howl in futile protest because this has the potential of breaking their assumption of qualification.
Kerry and Bush both went to Yale, yet clearly Kerry was not up to the task.
This is nothing more than a simple transference of the elites who think GWBush was only admitted to Yale and then Harvard because he had "connections".
I have appeared in court before judges who have never worked a non-goverment job, and judges who have worked in the real world. The judges who have worked in the real world are far more effective than those who have not.
I do not want another snob justice who thinks law conferences at quaint european resorts represent the entirety of the real world.
I want someone who had to work, pay a mortgage, work to find a job to be the one listening to the next eminent domain case.