I trust common people more than I trust Ivy League lawyers. I would prefer to be ruled over by farmers from Idaho than lawyers from Massachusetts and Connecticut.
There is no requirement that a member of the Supreme Court be a lawyer. And being a lawyer is no guarantee that you understand or will follow the law. Indeed, sometimes it is a hindrance. In fact, most times.
Men are not granted wisdom because they went to Yale or Harvard. They have wisdom because it is granted to them by God. In my life I have heard more wisdom from the mouths of gas station attendants and janitors than I have seen expressed in the opinions of most of the justices who have ever sat upon our supreme court.
Earl Warren was a governor of California. Look what that got us. Maybe we should call for an Amendment: NO CURRENT OR FORMER POLITICIANS ON THE SC