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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRoy Moore, Jeanine Pirro and Andrew Napolitano - Was there a mail order Judge school?
Cuz Judge Judy seems to have more brains than these clowns who do not deserve the title:
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)It's an elected office with no requirements. I have no idea how wide spread this is.
3catwoman3
(24,005 posts)Jurisdictional Requirements
Whether you must be a lawyer before serving as a judge depends on the requirements of the jurisdiction where you will serve. There aren't any legally-established qualifications for justices serving on certain federal courts -- including district courts, circuit courts and even the United States Supreme Court. On the local judicial level, each state legislature has discretion to set its own qualification requirements for judges. Twenty-four states allow nonlawyer judges to preside over certain types of judicial cases, as of 2014. For example, Pennsylvania does not require its magisterial district court judges to be licensed members of the Bar of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. These judges hear low level cases involving traffic violations and misdemeanor criminal charges.
We can ad Loie Gohmert to the list of WTF!
More at link:
https://legalbeagle.com/7829183-do-lawyer-before-can-judge.html
TomSlick
(11,098 posts)All judges in Arkansas - from district judges to State Supreme Court justices - must be lawyers. There are varying lengths for which a candidate for judicial office must have been a lawyer to run.
Maybe you're thinking about county judges - which are not judges at all - but the chief executive of a county. Back in the deep recesses of time, county judges had some limited judicial function (paternity comes to mind) but that was before my time but I've only been a lawyer in Arkansas for thirty-five years.
This ain't Alabama for pity's sake.
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)CanonRay
(14,103 posts)Undergrad at Liberty U
cbreezen
(694 posts)but, at least you can get a sense of her moral compass. These folks... not so much.
carterbob251
(33 posts)Hopefully, sent to pasture like the rest of them.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)BUT
Was not known for being overly bright, in fact, some called him resisted to logical reasoning, and one professor called him Fruit Salad for being tenaciously "all mixed up".
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-roy-moores-law-school-professor-nicknamed-him-fruit-salad
mnmoderatedem
(3,728 posts)and the administrators threw the diplomas in their open car windows
Pirro is getting nuttier than Hannity. And that is a pretty high bar.