Supreme Court Justice Process

Over the course of history and to this day, it is not, nor has it ever been, a requirement for U.S. Supreme Court Justices to have prior judicial experience before entering into office. However, over the past three decades or so it has become a norm for the people who nominate and confirm Supreme Court Justices to look for judicial experience as almost a prerequisite for office (Epstein, 2003). Although the U.S. Government officials have made this a norm, it is unnecessary to require prior judicial experience to those entering the Supreme Court and this norm may even be tainting the original purpose of the Supreme Court that the founders of the Constitution intended for it to have.
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This is the case on two levels. One, that people analyze situations and make decisions based on their career paths and two, that it is more likely for white males to have prior judicial experience than it is for minorities or woman to (Epstein, 2003). On the first level, this matters because when there is someone deciding on cases that are federal matters and may even change laws and the Constitution, you want them to be making the optimal decisions on each case, but if all of the Justices only or mainly have judicial experience then they are going to look at every case with a legal mind set and not from every side of it, therefore, will not make the most optimal decision. This being said, there should be people from all walks of life on the Supreme Court so that you get people who can look at all sides of a case in order to make the best decision on the matter at hand. On the second level, it is important to not only include people from all walks of life, but also from all groups of people so that every citizen of the United States is equally and fairly represented. Since this is an important matter, causing it to be a norm for Supreme Court Justices to have prior judicial experience is discriminatory and unfair because it is more likely that a white male has prior judicial experience than it is that a woman or a minority has prior judicial experience which means that it is more likely that a white male gets a position on the Supreme Court than it is that a woman or a minority does (Epstein, 2003). This means that this norm is not only causing less career diversity in the Supreme Court, but also less diversity in general which leads to unequal representation in federal