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re: It's time to stop putting Ivy League lawyers on the Supreme Court.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:58 pm to America250
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:58 pm to America250
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they don't have real world experience
Most of them have clerked for federal judges (including Supreme Court justices), practiced at elite law firms and have taught at law schools. They have the requisite knowledge and experience to do that job.
I agree that it would be good to have some law school diversity on the Court, but I don’t think the justices coming from Ivy League schools lack the experience needed to be on the Court.
This post was edited on 9/15/26 at 5:00 pm
Posted on 9/15/26 at 4:59 pm to 4cubbies
You of all people on here complaining about partisan hacks.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 5:12 pm to America250
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Im more inclined with the likes of a Sen. John Kennedy. Vanderbilt grad and University of Virginia law school.
Do you think Vandy and UVA Law are some sort of bastion of Southern culture? How about Oxford?
As for UVA Law, outside of maybe 10% who come from Virginia (mostly NOVA), the majority will be from states like CA, NY, MD, and the District of Columbia.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 5:20 pm to ShrimperDan
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Mass, sustained migration by land or sea just didn't really happen then.
LOL.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 5:21 pm to junkyarddawg3
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Agree 100%
Yeah, but you don’t know…..ASSuming you’re Scotty.
Dont tell Scotty!
Posted on 9/15/26 at 6:47 pm to ShrimperDan
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The problem isn't who is interpreting the law, the problem is the law itself. But no one wants to say that.
Actually, the problem are the people at the highest level interpreting the law more than the actual laws themselves
A. Dred Scott
B. Korematsu
C. Roe
D. Gibbons - interstate commerce
There are many others but it is the human fallibility and desire to inject one's own beliefs that create the issues rather than a pure interpretation.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 7:37 pm to America250
I’d go a step further and suggest we need some non-lawyers on the Supreme Court.
And don’t tell me you need lawyers to interpret the Constitution. It wasn’t written by lawyers and it could use a bit of non-lawyer interpretation about now to return to its original intent.
And don’t tell me you need lawyers to interpret the Constitution. It wasn’t written by lawyers and it could use a bit of non-lawyer interpretation about now to return to its original intent.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 7:45 pm to ChEgrad
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And don’t tell me you need lawyers to interpret the Constitution. It wasn’t written by lawyers and it could use a bit of non-lawyer interpretation about now to return to its original intent.
Lawyers want to be like medieval priests.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 7:46 pm to America250
George Mason
Posted on 9/15/26 at 7:49 pm to KCT
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Ketanji Brown Jackson went to Harvard Law School. That alone should tell everyone how OVERRATED that whole dynamic is.
Totally different spectrum for whites/ Asians . I would still say a white or Asian that goes to Harvard Law school is accomplished.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 7:50 pm to America250
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Utilize some of the law schools in the SEC. LSU, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Alabama, Texas. etc.
For to long Presidents have nominated Ivy League grads, and they don't have real world experience. They all are members of one large social club.
The judiciary is inherently and systematically left leaning due to the fact nearly all universities are decidedly left leaning and the Ivy League universities are way center left on the political spectrum. Not sure what can be done about it. The progressives/Marxists understood decades ago the key to ruling/ruining the constitutional republic was by controlling academia.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 8:21 pm to RummelTiger
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They all live in/around D.C.
Fairfax Station, VA
Bethesda, MD
Alexandria, VA
Chevy Chase, MD might as well be on the moon.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 8:44 pm to America250
With a couple notable exceptions, one in particular, the issue isn’t ability, it’s ideology. Grotesque ideologies know no conference. I’ll grant you the top “policy” schools lead the way in noetic diseases.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 9:16 pm to RummelTiger
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"real world experience"
Experience in flyover or SEC country. You know Ivy leaguers are full of themselves.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 9:19 pm to America250
Federal Courts: The U.S. Constitution sets no specific qualifications for federal judges, including Supreme Court Justices, who are not legally required to be lawyers, though every Justice in history has been trained in the law.
Plumbers, electricians, soldiers, or anyone else without a law degree!!
Plumbers, electricians, soldiers, or anyone else without a law degree!!
Posted on 9/15/26 at 9:23 pm to America250
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SEC. LSU, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Alabama, Texas
What if a Southern Law Grad made it to the big time on the US Supreme Court?
Posted on 9/15/26 at 9:40 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
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"real world experience"
Experience in flyover or SEC country. You know Ivy leaguers are full of themselves.
Origin cities of the current nine:
Long Beach, IN (Roberts)
Trenton, NJ (Alito)
Bronx (Sotomayor)
Manhattan (Kagan)
Denver, CO (Gorsuch)
Washington DC (Kavanaugh)
New Orleans, LA (Coney Barrett)
Miami, FL (Brown Jackson)
Only Kavanaugh and potentially Gorsuch had genuinely upper class upbringings. Maybe Brown Jackson (her dad was the chief attorney for the Miami Dade school system and her mom was a school principal) but that is really pushing it. The others were all decidedly middle or upper-middle class.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:53 pm to RohanGonzales
There are two other examples who have been there much longer.
Kagan and Sotomayor are only slightly higher on the IQ scale, and they are still below moron level.
Kagan and Sotomayor are only slightly higher on the IQ scale, and they are still below moron level.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:58 pm to RummelTiger
quote:Did Supreme Court justices work as ADAs, DAs, and state court clerkships. God, I hope not. (I certainly hope you mean federal ADAs and DAs, and not state ADAs and DAs. Those folks are morons.)
They all had to do a variety of clerkships, ADA, DA, State Court, Fed Court work, etc. - it's possible that the early experiences did give them that life experience, no?
Seems to me that most of them clerk for a USCoA straight out of law school, work for an attorney general, work at Big Law for a bit, then get seated on an USCoA before being nominated for the SCOTUS.
I really don't see anything wrong with the current process. I don't think long-term litigators make great judges. In my opinion, the best experience to be a SCOTUS Justice is to be a USCoA judge.
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:58 pm to tiggerfan02 2021
I give you:
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