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Cornyn: Judicial background both essential and unnecessary for SCOTUS nominees

In recent years I've shared concerns of those who say all the sitting US Supreme Court Justices' biographies look too much alike. My own preference for a new Justice would have been to select someone outside the judiciary who came from outside the Ivy League: Somebody in the Sandra Day O'Connor mold, perhaps (she was a Stanford graduate and a state senator from Arizona before her appointment to SCOTUS). In Elena Kagan, I get one out of two - a non-jurist who is a former Dean of Harvard Law School.I know very little about Ms. Kagan, but given my own druthers regarding diversity on the court (of views and experience, in particular, more than race and gender), I find complaints about Kagan's lack of judicial background a little silly. They're even more absurd when coming from people who took the opposite view when it was politically expedient...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 12, 2010 (boomark / email).