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Originally Posted by driveway
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 |
Thanks for that. Interesting (and surprising). Certainly markedly different than Canada.
Still doesn't change my view that Bernie Sanders, or anyone without extensive experience as an appellate judge, would likely be a terrible choice to sit on the SCOTUS.
For the record, I would be a terrible choice too.