She's never been a judge so let's make her a judge on the highest court

[spanone]

in the land. What kind of ignorant logic is that?????

[tainowarrior]

1. it's not a good logic

but it has precedence. Many Justices have never been judges.

[malmapus]

2. Same logic that put a guy who couldn't judge horses in charge of FEMA

Duh'byah logic.

[comsymp]

4. And the same logic that put a guy who's run every business he ever had

into the ground, into the Oval Office.

[Benhurst]

7. But don't forget, Bush nominated him for his courage. Dubya,

after all, is terrified of horses.

[CBGLuthier]

3. that issue is a non starter

There have been many SC justices who had no judicial experience. There is another post on DU that lists about ten of them.

One of them was a fellow you may have heard of named Earl Warren.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Warren

[CottonBear]

5. The issue is: is she qualified and does she have enough experience.

Other non-judge SCOTUS nominees served as District Attorneys and as Governors prior to being nominated to SCOTUS. I simply do not think that she is qualified.

She was involved in the GTECH/Barnes/TANG * coverup/no-bid contract scandal and she was recently involved in keeping important Robert's memos from the senators.

[onenote]

9. not only DAs or Governors

Lewis Powell: Private practice/ABA president/Richmond School Board

Arthur Goldberg: AFL-CIO attorney/Secretary of Labor (political appointee)

Abe Fortas: private practice

William O. Douglas: SEC commissioner

Felix Frankfurter: Labor law professor/advisor to FDR

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[Double T]

6. Plain and simple, this is another bush loyalist patronage job........

no experience or track record required!!!!!!!

[theboss]

8. This is a weak argument, in my view

The History of the Supreme Court is full of justices who were never judges.

Frankly, I think we are long overdue for a nominee who was not a judge.

Of course, that does not mean this woman should be that person.