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Master_Pedant
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07 Feb 2014, 4:16 am

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07 Feb 2014, 5:09 am

Indeed. Let's appoint more federal judges with long civil servant careers like Clarence Thomas (9 years in the Reagan administration), Samuel Alito (13 years in public prosecution) and Antonin Scalia (6-7 years in the Nixon-Ford administration) and fewer corporate lawyers like Sonia Sotomayor (who was a partner in a private law firm specializing in intellectual property litigation until appointed as federal judge in 1992).

I'm sure the progressive Democrats would love to see such a development.



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07 Feb 2014, 10:43 am

Lawyers have to work somewhere.



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07 Feb 2014, 11:02 am

What is wrong with trial lawyers, the ones who defend accused criminals?