"By and large, I'm going to be picking from schools that basically are the hardest to get into. They admit the best and the brightest, and they may not teach very well, but you can't make a sow's ear out of a silk purse. If they come in the best and the brightest, they're probably going to leave the best and the brightest, OK?"
Guess the speaker (opining on how to get SCOTUS clerkship to 2d tier law school student).
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