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Judicial Experience Ought Be Required
Legal Experience Is Enough - Kagan
President Obama has nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the open Supreme Court seat created by retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. Is it a problem that this nominee has no prior experience as a judge? Or is legal experience enough?
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The Boss - 5/10/10 @ 5:07 PM:
"Kagan would become the only justice who had no prior experience as a judge. The other justices all served previously as federal appeals court judges. She was named to a federal appeals court by President Bill Clinton, but the Senate never brought that nomination to a vote.
That means Kagan has a smaller paper trail than other recent nominees since there are no prior decisions to scrutinize." (Source: http://tinyurl.com/2d6rq5y )
I'm fully aware that there have been Supreme Court Justices in the past that didn't have judicial experience but something about this makes me very uneasy. As the quote above states, it's pretty difficult to scrutinize a nominee's record when there isn't a judicial record to scrutinize.
Only time will tell but I have a feeling this story will grow some legs.
That means Kagan has a smaller paper trail than other recent nominees since there are no prior decisions to scrutinize." (Source: http://tinyurl.com/2d6rq5y )
I'm fully aware that there have been Supreme Court Justices in the past that didn't have judicial experience but something about this makes me very uneasy. As the quote above states, it's pretty difficult to scrutinize a nominee's record when there isn't a judicial record to scrutinize.
Only time will tell but I have a feeling this story will grow some legs.
