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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd like to see a[b] non-lawyer [/b]on the court eventually, and if not, definitely not someone from an Ivy.[/quote]

Oh yes let's have a businessman. That seems to work out well. (S)  Do you know how ignorant you are?  Their job is to interpret subtleties in the law using their years of case knowledge.  How would a non lawyer even know how to look up precedent?  I think Thomas, with years on the EEOC and a couple of years as an appeals judge had very thin qualifications.  He had never tried a case.  [/quote]

Honestly, precedent is not a difficult concept and neither is interpreting subtleties in language.  I'm a lawyer but I dont think one has to be lawyer to be a judge.  I too would like a non-lawyer or at least non-ivy person on the court.  At least KBJ was a public defender.  We need a broader variety of experiences on the Court.[/quote]

Non Ivy?  Absolutely.

Non legal?  When we let non-pilots fly fighter jets, non-MDs perform surgery, non-scientists develop vaccines, etc.

Prescient is not a hard concept. But applying it at the Supreme Court level is very difficult and complex, before we get to the issue of multi-jurisdictional civil procedure, issues of pendant and ancillary jurisdiction, the need to apply analyze a highly technical point of rehabilitation of a witness in a federal civil trial, and procedural vs substantive due process.  [/quote]

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