In my piece today, I mention that five of the nine Supreme Court justices went to the same law school — Harvard — with three of the remaining four having gone to Yale and one — Justice Ginsburg — having gone to Columbia. Ginsburg, I wrote, is always an outlier. Ed Whelan writes in to correct me: Ginsburg spent the first two years of her law-school career at — surprise! — Harvard, before transferring to Columbia. According to Wikipedia, which never lies, she did this for the charmingly old-fashioned purpose of following her husband, who had taken a job in New York.

Which is to say, the intellectual homogeneity of our nine-member national super-legislature is slightly worse than I had suggested.