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If nominee Elena Kagan is confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, the nine-member body will be made up entirely of judges educated at either Harvard Law School or Yale Law School — an unusually homogenous group as far as educational background, according to several law professors. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg started law school at Harvard, but transferred to Columbia Law School — firmly within the Ivy League — when her husband took a job in New York.)

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