re: In the United States, there is no federal requirement for judges to have a law degree

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How about surgeons that didn't graduate med school?
Is that also a good thing ?

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We're about to get a surgeon general without a medical license

Other notable girl-bosses too bossy to pass the bar exam:

Kamala Harris
Hillary Clinton
Michelle Obama
Kim Kardashian

Seven states don't require one complete law school to take the bar.

One need only work under a licensed attorney for X number of years.

James Byrnes.



You cannot do worse than KJB and she meets the qualification of having a law degree, passing the bar, and being a judge.

None of these qualifications guarantee you're going to get a competent Supreme Court Justice.

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Meh, our law schools are retard factories.

Look at the lawyers on this board.

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No kidding.

Based on the contributions of a handful of attorneys on this very forum, it often seems a law degree is antithetical to sound judgment, if not a sound mind.

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As to STATE judicial positions, I would oppose any such federal requirement ... because I actually believe in federalism.

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You don’t have to be a law school graduate to understand the Tenth Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

In short, the authority not specifically assigned to or restricted from the federal government cannot be presumed by that government; such powers are reserved for the states.

That's eye-opening, for sure.

I had no idea that here in the USA in many places being a lawyer is not necessary for you to be a Judge.

Wow. We really do know how to screw ourselves. We did a great job of destroying the Confederate States of America but we aren't doing a good job of saving the United States of America.

I give the USA another 150 years, tops.

You could in good faith argue that folks with law degrees have done more harm to this country than ones without

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You could in good faith argue that folks with law degrees have done more harm to this country than ones without

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Indeed


We have a SCOTUS Justice that can't tell you what a woman is.


We have a number of loons like Boasberg who intentionally ignore the law in order to implement their political agendas. Neither a law degree nor the bar prevented the system from being infiltrated by bad actors like these.

Lawyers should be like engineers and doctors- an apprenticeship of some type should absolutely be required.

Law schools shouldn’t necessarily be required, but a bar exam of some type should be, as well as a satisfactory clerkship of at least a year.

I guess you could pass a bar exam of some type without going to law school, but you definitely would have to have someone teach you how to do it. Plus, going to law school is no guarantee you’ll pass the bar. Ask people who went to Southern.

Judges who were never practicing attorneys make the worst judges. I think it’s why ACB has been such a flop. She’s smart AF, but she’s never really had to deal with an a-hole client, an a-hole attorney on the other side, or a judge who has never practiced in the real world. Non-lawyer judges don’t have to see what the consequences of your rulings can do to people. It’s bad enough being before a judge who has only ever been a government lawyer, I can only imagine it would be infinitely worse to be before someone who works for the government, puts on a robe, and then goes on a fricking power trip.

I’d be fuming pissed if I were stuck before some magistrate who never practiced law and I were having to watch a client get rickrolled by some non lawyer’s idea of “justice.”

I won’t even consent to mediators or arbitrators (and I fricking hate arbitration) who are not lawyers.