Quote: (06-29-2017 05:06 PM)Samseau Wrote:
A judge needs to be more like a moderator who merely applies the agreed upon rules fairly. He's not the guy who makes the rules. Both Brennan and Marshall were activist judges who completely abused their power completely and lead to the current extreme discontent between the left and the right today.
I see Marshall only as an activist in terms of his defining specifically what the Supreme Court's role, as the court system's role is pretty much undefined in the Constitution.
Quote: (06-29-2017 05:06 PM)Samseau Wrote:
- No law school to take the Bar (this will lower costs of lawyers by about a factor of 10)
This is actually the case in a few states. A few states allow lawyers to "read the law" (a sort of apprenticeship with a qualified attorney) and then take the exam. The main reason this isn't more common is that you don't qualify in every state under "reading the law," and the pass rate of the bar among those who've "read the law" is something like 10 percent.
Prior to the first law schools in the US, this is how most lawyers were trained, with the exception of those who went over to the UK for training (e.g. Peyton Randolph).
If you're not fucking her, someone else is.