re: #367 Spare O’Lake
People who point to the fact that long ago many SCOTUS justices did not have prior judicial experience are wading into apple-y-orange-y territory, because today, most of SCOTUS business comes down to revisiting case law….. miles and miles of it….. to interpret and test it for constitutionality …. or at least that’s the job description. Some real-time familiarity with how this case law has been applied and interpreted in lower courts seems almost a must for the present day SC.