Blah blah blah Harriet Miers blah blah blah.
Let’s do the numbers:
| SCOTUS Judicial Experience1 | ||
| Experience | Number of Justices | Percentage |
| None2 | 26 | 23.85% |
| Political3 | 24 | 22.02% |
| Solicitor General | 3 | 2.75% |
| Attorney General | 9 | 8.26% |
| Governor | 4 | 3.67% |
| Senator | 7 | 6.42% |
| President | 1 | 0.92% |
| State Court Judges | 42 | 38.53% |
| Federal District Judges | 7 | 6.42% |
| Federal Appeals Court Judges | 27 | 24.77% |
| Judical Experience Total | 76 | 69.72% |
1All data from the Oyez Project
2No significant political experience as defined by the category breakout following
3Total based on the category breakout
I have a complete breakdown by Justice in this spreadsheet for the geeky amoung you.
obviously the sudden republican obsession with un-nominating harriet had nothing to do with her lack of experience. they simply weren’t getting the full-bore activist judge they’d been hoping for.
she’s a woman. there’s no guarantee she won’t sprout moderate tendencies…