Would that include the fancy lawyers at The ACLU? And the EFF? What about Ginsberg? Or Jackson? Or Sotomayor?
I don’t think having a law degree is the problem.
“Fancy lawyers” as portrayed in the article, are the ones who come out of a handful of elite law schools with the expectation that they will eventually become chief justices. It’s about more than having a law degree.
That said, I think I still disagree with their argument; there’s plenty of justices with law degrees who in general are awesome; and going the route they’re arguing could in fact return to the era of political justices with no legal background; that’s not an outcome I ever want to see.
I’m glad you came away from the article with that perspective. I tried reading the article and all I saw was “stop appointing lawyers to the Supreme Court because law degrees from ‘fancy’ institutions turn out rotten people.” Meanwhile Princeton and Columbia turned out the Supremes I mentioned.
