{"id":720479,"date":"2010-04-20T13:09:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011653378_whowillreplacestevensinsupremecourt.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-20T13:09:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:09:15","slug":"who-will-replace-stevens-in-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/720479","title":{"rendered":"Who will replace Stevens in Supreme Court?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nothing wrong about having experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Harvard-Yale Alumni Club, better known as the Supreme Court of the United States, is faced with a dilemma: What sort of person should replace Judge John Paul Stevens when he retires? [\u201cStevens says he\u2019ll decide soon on retiring,\u201d News, April 4.]<\/p>\n<p>The religious makeup of the club after Stevens leaves will be eight Catholics and two Jews. Because of this, it is unlikely that either a Jew or a Catholic will be considered. That is unfortunate because religion should never be a factor in choosing a judge.<\/p>\n<p>The most important criterion should be who has the broadest experience in the practice of law, but I doubt that quality will even be considered. Factors such as religion, which law school someone attended, vacancies in lower federal courts and politics will matter far more.<\/p>\n<p>If one uses logic to figure out the next appointment, then one would figure that the nod would go to a Protestant, lower-circuit federal judge.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that does not happen.<\/p>\n<p>Why not select a lawyer from a private practice, who has actually worked for a living and not lived off the government? Why not appoint someone who lives west of the Appalachian Mountains, who worships the laws of the United States, attended a public law school, tried and won cases in the U.S. Supreme Court?<\/p>\n<p>In short, why not nominate a person with experience? I know it would be novel, but maybe \u2014 just maybe \u2014 such a person would become a great judge. There is nothing wrong about having experience.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Harry Foster, Freeland<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing wrong about having experience The Harvard-Yale Alumni Club, better known as the Supreme Court of the United States, is faced with a dilemma: What sort of person should replace Judge John Paul Stevens when he retires? [\u201cStevens says he\u2019ll decide soon on retiring,\u201d News, April 4.] The religious makeup of the club after Stevens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31qD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}