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Originally Posted by Makarov
Being a lawyer seems like it would be a pre-requisite? To sit on the SCOTUS bench?
Even the most nakedly political nominees have decades of experience as appellate level judges. How would Bernie Sanders write a 60 page decision on some narrow issue of debtor-creditor law? Why not just send him n to the operating room to separate conjoined twins too?
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There is no Constitutional pre-requisite to be a Supreme Court Justice. No age, experience, or even Citizenship requirement exists. Literally anyone in the world could be nominated.
However, every single Justice ever has been a lawyer, either having attended law school, law classes, been admitted to the bar, or practiced law.
http://www.npr.org/sections/politica...reme_cour.html