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Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s ill-informed comments and questions at the recent oral argument in the challenge to the Biden Administration’s COVID vaccination mandate case (National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor) provide a timely reminder that the hyper-elite legal talent on the nation’s High Court is not always what it is cracked up to be.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Jackson, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1996, to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, another Harvard Law alumnus. If she is confirmed, eight of the nine sitting justices will be from Harvard or Yale Law -- four from each school.

The nation's highest court has not been without a graduate of Harvard Law since 1881.

As Biden considers a Black woman for Supreme Court, there’s no shortage of Yale...

As Biden considers a Black woman for Supreme Court, there’s no shortage of Yale...

As Biden considers a Black woman for Supreme Court, there’s no shortage of Yale...

As Biden considers a Black woman for Supreme Court, there’s no shortage of Yale...

As Biden considers a Black woman for Supreme Court, there’s no shortage of Yale...

As Biden considers a Black woman for Supreme Court, there’s no shortage of Yale...

As Biden considers a Black woman for Supreme Court, there’s no shortage of Yale...