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Originally Posted by Willravel
She'll have to be a federal judge first. It's not an official rule, but nominating someone who was just a lawyer and who has no judicial experience is just stupid.
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will...some of the best Supreme Court justices (IMO) had no federal judicial bench experience....Earl Warren, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurther...and more recently, one of the worst (IMO)..William Rehnquist.
And you will recall that Bush nominated his good friend Harriet Miers (currently under a House subpoena and contempt of Congress order). He withdrew her name not because of lack of judicial experience, but because she was perceived to be not conservative enough.
In any case, I just dont see Hillary having interest. She is a politician by nature, not a jurist. I would put more money on her running for governor of NY in 2010 rather than languish as a back bencher in the Senate, where most of her party members support Obama.