Solicitor General Nomination

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by Archaea

There are plenty of intelligent and experienced persons to sit on the bench, don't give me a goddamn academic with no real life experience. The art of a good jurist is blending wisdom with real life experience. An academic is useless in that context. If she had had say ten years of intense courtroom action plus academia, I could accept that, but as a practicing attorney i would prefer a jurist with thirty years of the best experience over a hundred of the acadecians up there. It's absurd.

She went from the Supreme Court as a law clerk to Williams & Connolly to the White House as Associate Counsel to the President. When did those positions become "academic"?