Should Supreme Court Candidates Be Limited to Lawyers and Judges?

The original intent of the Judiciary Branch of Government is simply to Interpret the law. Now how many of us remember this from 5th grade? We have 3 branches of government; the legislative Branch (Which is supposed to make the laws), the Executive branch (Which is supposed to enforce the laws) and the Judiciary Branch (Which is supposed to Interpret the laws). Every major law that has been made in the last 40 years has been made by the supreme court they are supposed to Interpret the law not create new laws to fit whatever political agenda they are being pressured to abide by (Be it Democratic or Republican, Conservative or Liberal) So if you ask me, by that definition, I think our next supreme court member should have a background in law, and I would prefer him to have been a judge at some point so that they have a working knowledge of the law and not some lawyer who has spent years looking for ways around the law, looking for loopholes to get the guilty freed of any charges.

Ymerej of SC 3:08PM May 07, 2009