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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Rambi who wrote (67510)5/21/2008 5:32:26 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (4) of 540940
 
long history of nonjudge justices.

Nearly half of justices had no prior experience on the bench.By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON – John Marshall is widely revered as "the great Chief Justice," but before joining the Supreme Court in 1801 he had never served a day in judicial robes and lost the only case he argued at the high court.

Earl Warren had worked for 18 years as a prosecutor and was three times elected governor of California. But he had no prior judicial experience. Nor did William Rehnquist, Felix Frankfurter, and Louis Brandeis.

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