October 07, 2005

Experience On The Court

Our colleagues at CongressDaily cooked up a neat chart about rookies on the SCOTUS bench.

Here's the first graph: "Harriet Miers' lack of judicial experience is not unique among Supreme Court nominees. The late Chief Justice William Rehnquist had been a Phoenix lawyer and assistant attorney general before President Nixon nominated him to the court in 1971. Other justices who had never wielded a gavel include a former Republican governor of California (Chief Justice Earl Warren), several attorneys general (most recently Justice Tom Clark) and an SEC chairman (Justice William O. Douglas)."

Posted at 09:43 AM

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Also Justice Byron White. Prior to his time on the court, he was the "Whizzer" as a RB for the University of Colorado, and eventually for the Steelers and Lions. He also was a political ally of JFK

david lee | 10.10.05 12:29 AM

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