ANYBODY with a four year degree can go to lawschool.
I do mean ANYBODY.
There are more first year seats than there are students. There is a MASSIVE overcapacity of law schools. they are cash cows because government loans guarantee profit. There are no jobs and you have graduates with no connections competing with older lawyers with modest connections for what was once starting positions in law firms and government prosecutor and public defender offices.
(as a bonus, in the federal arena only DOJ lawyers become judges nowadays.)
I imagine it’d be dangerous to the federal government to have people who at some point in their lives did stuff outside government to be judging government. You don’t want to accidentally appoint some extremist who has read the Constitution for reasons other than loops and giggles, for instance, or who hears about Footnote Four precedent, for instance, without first having his brain prepared. Because coming at it dry, not knowing you must give the constitutionality of federal laws the benefit of the doubt for no reason whatsoever, it might all seem rather question-begging.
I imagine it’d be dangerous to the federal government to have people who at some point in their lives did stuff outside government to be judging government. You don’t want to accidentally appoint some extremist who has read the Constitution for reasons other than poops and giggles, for instance, or who hears about Footnote Four precedent, for instance, without first having his brain prepared. Because coming at it dry, not knowing you must give the constitutionality of federal laws the benefit of the doubt for no reason whatsoever, it might all seem rather question-begging.