See, I don't have as much of a problem with them legislating--heck, quite a few of the folks that wrote the
Constitution and the
Declaration of Independence (more than half of the latter) were trained in the law. But if they're doing the interpreting, that's a bad thing, because they read terms of art into regular language, which is not something that a regular person would do. Additionally, the horse sense of your average joe doesn't apply to lawyers bent on getting to a specific end, which means they'll come up with penumbras and all sorts of bullshit to work around the fact that they ain't got jack in the way of law to support their opinions.
Anyway, that's why I don't mind them writing it, but letting them interpret it has gotten to be silly.
Nope. Don't let them write the laws. In fact start repealing laws with a 1/3 vote.
Lawyers are unique. Two unemployed lawyers can put each other to work. When a third one starts writing laws Lawyer full employment is the natural consequence.
Try that with any other profession.