Trump's latest SCOTUS shortlist additions have a dangerous lack of judicial experience. Some of them are well known in legal circles (Clement, Landau, Francisco), but there are only two on the list with any real judicial experience, Bade and Lagoa (mostly low level state judge).
Here's their years of experience ON THE BENCH
Bade: 8.5
Cameron: 0
Clement: 0
Cotton: 0
Cruz: 0
Duncan: 2.5
Engel: 0
Francisco: 0
Hawley: 0
Ho: <3
Katsas: <3
Lagoa: 14 (12as low level FL judge)
Landau: 0
Muñiz: 1.5
Pacold: 1
Phipps: 2
Pitlyk: <1
Rushing: <2
Todd: 0
VanDyke: 0.5
Half have no experience. The average is less than 2 years EACH. If you leave off the two experienced outliers, there's only 16.5 years of experience spread across 18 possible nominees: an average of 11 MONTHS of experience each. For a lifetime appointment on the highest court.
This is back of the envelope math AND I may have missed some judicial exp. AND some have other experience, just as I have other objections to, for instance, their openly hostile views towards secular Americans and blatant Christian Nationalism. But this is telling and damning.
Again, this was quick. So if you see an error, please let me know. Either in the original numbers or in my math.
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