Alito

[Alex]

To me, the school that a Supreme Court nominee goes to is not all that important in evaluating them for the Supreme Court any more than I care what school the presidential or congressional candidates went to. (Or when doing my own hiring what school the applicants went to unless they are applying straight out of school).

By the time somone is nominated for the Supreme Court they are at least a quarter century (and potentially much longer) removed from their schooling. What has happened in between dwarfs the importance of the school to near insignificance.

And the fact that Ginsburg and Scalia both came from the same narrow category of school would tend to argue against that being a stifling factor. To the degree it is significant I think it shows how going to an Ivy League school puts you in range of contacts that eases the slide toward prominence.