Look at the biographies of the current supreme court members. What are the official qualifications to be a justice on the court? According to the biographies, what are the unofficial qualifications? Should being on the Supreme Court be a political appointment?
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There are no requirements to become a surpreme court justice, except that you have to be at least 30 and a US citizen for five years before your appointment. However, the current Supreme Court justices seem to have a lot more in common than that. All were born in the US. They all served as consuls to government committees and organizations or worked in some sort of higher court. They are all born in the 50s or earlier.
I couldn't find any official requirments to be a Supreme Court justice. But, the current Supreme Court shares many unofficial things. they are all 50 or older, they are all white, they are all men, they were all born in the US, and they all have a lot of experience in law.
One of the first things that I noticed while I was reading was that each person was married and had children. Also most had some sort of college education focused around law. Most also gathered experience through doing other things that were similar to being a supreme court justice. All of them wern't males, I read that one was a woman. Most however were white males who were born in the 50s like Aliza said. One unoffical qualification that I think that they might need is a connection to get where they are now, even if the person was supurb they still need someone to notice them, and make a recomondation.
I don't think there were any specific requirements except like aliza said they have to be old enough, and a citizen. Almost everyone had some kind of higher education usually focusing on law. Some had small political jobs like clerks or chairmen. I read that one or two even had some military jobs such as assistant attorney general. One unofficial qualification might be having the money to get them into law schools and get them noticed for their work.
Although there were no official qualifications, there were many recurring themes between the justices. All but no justice went to atleast one IVY league school, which meant they have a good education, and most likely access to a lot of money. They also have put some of the many years in their life inside a court before they cam to the Supreme Court, which gives them experience. There are also, like the others pointed out, not young whipper-snappers anymore.
Tyler Reidy
I also picked up on what was said in the begining of each biography the areall married and have children so they are obviously straight , they are white, men, all old, with some sort of law degree or background, they all also proably come from families with old money and connections. so basically its like the first voters again running our country, white land owning males with money.
P.S. Nate stop your misinformed misogynist ways, Sandra Day O'Connor (Women) recently retired from U.S. supreme court.
Also, I think the president should nominate people but I think the judicial branch should be the ones who make the final decision and not Congress.
Most people have said it but there are no defined requirements to be justice. Alot of them have held positions in goverment that have to do with law or enforcement. Also most of them are fairly old, like in their 50's or older. Also like Gabe said, they need connections with the president since he needs to appoint them. I don't think it should be a political appointment because its anouther way for politics to affect what should happen. A Judge could go in favor of his party rather then what is the right thing to do. I think the senate should nominate and vote on the court justices.
Hey aliza did you get that from here ?
Thats just for the supreme court of Mississippi
There are no official requirements. the president appoints justices and congress aproves them. Some unofficial requirements are pretty stereotypical, straight, white, rich, males with a background in law. Since the president appoints them then their political ideas are very similar to the presidents.
Supreme court justices should be elected by the people instead of hand picked by the persident. This makes it so the persident cant pick people who go along with his/hers ideas.
A lot of people are saying that all supreme court justices are men, what about Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
I agree with everyone that there are no official requirements besides (30 and a citizen for 5 years) but those are just things we learned in class, i didn't get them from the reading.
Nora i like your point about everyone being strait. i wouldn't have picked that out. =]
i think they should be chosen by the president because so far, there haven't been many issues to question this way of choosing them. (correct me if i'm wrong)
well, the official requirements are that you have to be at least 30 years old, and you must have lived in the united states for three years. But most or all of the people had children, and they had a lot of education. They most likely had some connections, like Gabe said. they all seem to be well educated people, but people that raise little controvercy, like what pam mentioned.
There aren't any official qualifications, but it appears that to be a justice on the supreme court you need experience in court and working with lawyers, an A.B, J.D, or LL.B, and must be a U.S citizen. The current justices have a lot of things in common, like that they are all at least fifty.
I could not find any specific qualifications to be a justice on the court. However, I would imagine that they must be a US citizen for a specific amount of time and they would probably have to be an adult. Some unofficial qualifications or similarities that I noticed among most of the Justices of the Supreme Court are they are all married, have children, went to college with a major in law, and some of them had previous jobs dealing with the government.
The are no Official requirments to be in a supreme court justice. But some unofficial requirements are that you have to be a white male, you have to know what your doing, and most of them are in their 50s. All of the men were also born in the us. Alot of the people have experience in law, and how everything works, which would make sense.
There are no official qualificiations to become a supreme court justice listed in the reading, but in class we learned that you must be 30 or older, and must have been a US citizen for 5 years.
All of the current supreme court justices are over 50 years old, have worked in some sort of higher court. They are all married, with children, and have all graduated from law schools.
there are no official requirements to be on the supreme but i noticed that all of the people were born in the US and they were mostly white males. They all attended big name colleges and majored in law which is expected.
I also noticed that they were all married and had children they also were over the age of 50.
As everyone has said there are few if any official qualifications to be a justice on the court.
There were many patterns in the biographies, I'm not sure if you would really call them unofficial qualifications though. I saw that all of them were born in the US, and they all had good experience in law before that. They were all married and had atleast 1 child. Also they all went to big impressive colleges. Another thing I saw was that some of them had been law clerks before. I don't really know what that means but I thought it was significant. Some of them had worked with some of the other Supreme justices before. The last thing that I noticed was that some of the justices had worked with the Attorney General before they got their job as a justice.
most of the supreme court members had to be married and have a high education. they went to good colleges. Most of them had a good amount fo experience in government activities. they have the usual requirments to be a citizen and the age of 30+. the fact that they need to have a good amount of money was not said but it is kind of obvious when they went to such nice schools they needed money to have that experience in the government.
the only offical requirements to be a surpreme court judge is that you have to be 30+ and you have to be a citizen for 5+ years. there are some similarities with in the justices. like their ages. they are between the ages of 88-58. only one is not married and has a least one kid. they all went to collage (good ones). i think the president should appoint the justices but they should be well qualified. :)
There are no requirements to become a supreme justice. But you do have to be a US citizen for five years and you have to be 30 years old before being appointed. But there would be some helpful things that would help you in the system like, having expirence with the government. As you can tell when you look at them they have very similar characterisitics they are all man they are have expirence and they are all white.
For the Supreme Court there are really no official requirements. There are some unofficial requirements that are you need to have some experience with the law whether it be a law clerk or a lawyer or a judge or all three you need to have experience. Also you should have gone to a law school of some sort and have degree. You also have to be a United States citizen. You also have to be over 30 years old! Basically you have to be old and smart with the law!
There doesn't seem to be any official qualifications to become a supreme court justice, but the ones that are there now share a lot of unofficial qualifications. First of all, they're all 50 years or older and were born in the U.S. Also they all had an education and attended some form of law school. Also, a majority of them are married and have a family.
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