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From Political Wire:
Justice Antonin Scalia said that he likes that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is not currently a judge, ABC News reports.
Said Scalia: "When I first came to the Supreme Court, three of my colleagues had never been a federal judge. William Rehnquist came to the Bench from the Office of Legal Counsel. Byron White was Deputy Attorney General. And Lewis Powell who was a private lawyer in Richmond and had been president of the American Bar Association."
He added: "Currently, there is nobody on the Court who has not served as a judge -- indeed, as a federal judge -- all nine of us... I am happy to see that this latest nominee is not a federal judge -- and not a judge at all."
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