"many people are saying she's not enough of a lawyer, while I say we need people who are far less lawyerly."
RIGHT ON! I am from a family full of lawyers and the smartest person of all of us dropped out of college and started his own business. It's about time we got something other than the paper dolls they always put up.
I found out that 30% of the Supreme Court Justices had no prior judicial experience.
Yet many elites on FR are saying judicial experience must be a requirement.
Go figure. I thought conservatives were the grass roots people.
It's a matter of different concerns. I'd rather we have few lawyers writing the law, but I want somebody good at the task of interpreting the law on the Supreme Court. The best way to ensure that is by their having experience on the bench.
The last thing I want on the Supreme Court is a philosopher-king, who doesn't deeply understand the legal or logical details but knows what they like.
The place for far-less-lawyerly types is in the Capitol building.