Does America keep electing the wrong spouse? Law school transcripts say yes

A handful of first or second ladies attended law school, long a training ground for America’s political elite. Each met her future husband there or arrived on campus ahead of him. Again and again, people who knew them at the time recalled a similar dynamic: The women were the standouts, seemingly destined to play second fiddle to no one - (Getty)

Long before their husbands were elected president or vice president, several of America’s future first and second ladies had already eclipsed them in the law school classroom.

Usha Vance was described as “50 billion times better” than JD Vance in a moot court exercise, in a recent Vanity Fair profile of the vice president which spoke to their former professors and classmates at Yale. Hillary Clinton was remembered as a relentless go-getter, while Bill Clinton rarely attended class. And when a professor was asked to compare Barack and Michelle Obama, he offered an unvarnished assessment: “She was better.”