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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoe Biden for Supreme Court
He deserves it and he might be a nominee to get thru the Senate.
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Joe Biden for Supreme Court (Original Post)
OldHippieChick
Feb 2016
OP
Is Biden a lawyer? Does one need to be a lawyer for the position? I should know this but I don't.
Ed Suspicious
Feb 2016
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Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)1. Is Biden a lawyer? Does one need to be a lawyer for the position? I should know this but I don't.
sorry.
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)2. You do not have to be a lawyer to be appointed to the Supreme Court
mcar
(42,334 posts)3. He's a lawyer
But you don't need to be one.
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)4. Oddly, there are no specific requirements to being a
Supreme Court Justice, but Biden is a lawyer.
procon
(15,805 posts)5. No requirements whatsoever.
"The Constitution does not specify qualifications for Justices such as age, education, profession, or native-born citizenship. A Justice does not have to be a lawyer or a law school graduate, but all Justices have been trained in the law. Many of the 18th and 19th century Justices studied law under a mentor because there were few law schools in the country.
The last Justice to be appointed who did not attend any law school was James F. Byrnes (1941-1942). He did not graduate from high school and taught himself law, passing the bar at the age of 23."
http://www.supremecourt.gov/faq.aspx#faqgi2