[Brian Allen]

<< ..... the need is to stop appointing lawyers as judges ..... One of the foremost noted supreme court justices was not a lawyer. >>

Many of the English-Speaking world's very finest judges have been other than lawyers.

I always find it difficult, given the self-perpetuating politocracy's preoccupation with [Getting along without?] ethics and with [Dodging charges of?] conflict of interest, to reconcile that lawyers are permitted to be politicians.

Let alone be "judges."

[cynicom]

Have a family member that is a judge. Corrupt as they come. Joe Sixpack with the "wrong" lawyer goes to the slammer. Mr. Bigshot with the "right" lawyer, walks.