10-04-2018, 12:18 PM
(10-04-2018, 12:14 PM)GMDino Wrote: As an aside to this circus the GOP is teeing up for us this week:
What kind of qualifications should one have to sit on the SC?
I didn't really realize that Kavanaugh as "legal" and government experience but only 12 years as a judge. (Appoint by another frat boy, btw.)
Even then he was accused of being too partisan and the ABA downgraded him to "qualified" after reviewing his work.
Is there ANY kind of standard or is just a legal background required? I haven't even started to look at current members let alone all the past ones. to see if there is a trend or an exception.
Technically, there is no requirement. The POTUS has the authority to nominate whomever. For instance, the one nominee of Trump's that never even argued a case and had no experience on any bench.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
