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I've been looking forward to an article like this all day since I read that 30% of all SC Justices never served on the bench.

Still don't know if that's true, but this article sure demonstrates that such a pre-requisite isn't necessary for a great Justice.

Still haven't made my mind up about Miers, but thanks for the info.

That percentage is about right. The precise number is that 35 of the 110 total Associate Justices were never judges prior to that appointment. For Chief Justices, the number is 5 out of 17 who had no prior judicial experience, including as this article notes, the great John Marshall, the fourth Chief.

I know Jonathan Turley. I am truly ashamed of the elitist snobbery that his quotes in this article demonstrate. I consider the same snobbery by Ann Coulter to be pathetic, also.

The value of people's contributions in this life are measured by what they accomplish with their lives and their character, not by whatever advantages they might have had, for whatever reason, early in their lives. I could go on at length about the difference between pure education and education in life. Suffice to say, I have infinitely more respect for Harriet Miers than for many of my fellow graduates like Joe Lieberman and John Kerry, to name to people not entirely at random.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Harriet Miers and the 'Pigpen' Press"

I've been looking forward to an article like this all day since I read that 30% of all SC Justices never served on the bench. Still don't know if that's true, but this article sure demonstrates that such a pre-requisite isn't necessary for a great Justice. Still haven't made my mind up about Miers, but thanks for the info.

It does my heart good when I read another poster's comments that show that the poster has an open-mind. I find it inspiring after reading so many people exposing their closed minds. Thanks for that. :)