HOW CLARENCE THOMAS PROMOTES DIVERSITY:

He says he thinks it’s important to have diversity, and his idea is to concentrate on his circuit, the 11th Circuit. So he’ll look for law students who are near the top of the class in schools in that circuit (which includes Florida).

He’s explicitly scornful of the bloggers who refer to the students at the less highly ranked law schools as “TTT” or “third tier trash.”

Plus: “And for law clerks he chooses ‘the kids I like,’ with “a preference for non-Ivy League law clerks, ‘because “I’m not part of this new or faux nobility.'”