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Ngl I kinda unironically agree with this, except that they’re using it for evil not for good
There is no law requiring that judges be lawyers, and in fact I kind of think it’s a conflict of interest outside of maybe the lowest level judges. I don’t want judges who know the law, I want judges with strong morals. I want judges who understand the spirit of the law more than the letter of it.
This becomes more true the higher you go. Supreme Court Justices should absolutely have no prior experience with law aside from activism to change laws or perhaps having been in prison.
Being a judge is not a technical job that requires knowledge of the law, it is a position of political power. By the nature of our Common Law system, judges do not simply apply the law, they create it by its enforcement. IMO deep knowledge of the law is a detriment to your ability to create it. Trump has really shown this: Don’t check if shit’s “legal” before you do it, just do it, hope for the best, fight if people try to stop you.
This is extra true given that lawyers are overwhelmingly wealthy assholes who shouldn’t be anywhere near power. I’d rather fill the judiciary with a random selection of homeless people than a random selection of lawyers, and in practice we select worse than random from the lawyers.