tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196201224507060771.post1341560626466041887..comments2023-12-18T05:12:50.293-05:00Comments on LAW PROF on the LOOSE: Nonlawyer Justice?Jon Siegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05903271363747693689noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196201224507060771.post-90733593882923875812010-05-02T10:56:14.403-04:002010-05-02T10:56:14.403-04:00The law clerks, four or five for each justice depe...The law clerks, four or five for each justice depending upon their position, could readily research and answer such questions in legalese for a non-laywer justice. <br /><br />It makes sense to consider a person - regardless of bar membership - who can and would read and understand the plain text and intent of a law, and give a decision based upon them rather than contriving one based upon a convoluted, extra-textual, unintended and strained alternative meaning of a poorly written ambiguous statute simply because he or she finds it appropriate to their personal political philosophy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com