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Technically, the Constitution does not specify qualifications for Justices or even have to be a lawyer or law school graduate (see below from the Supreme Court website).

The Constitution does not specify qualifications for Justices such as age, education, profession, or native-born citizenship. A Justice does not have to be a lawyer or a law school graduate, but all Justices have been trained in the law. Many of the 18th and 19th century Justices studied law under a mentor because there were few law schools in the country.

The last Justice to be appointed who did not attend any law school was James F. Byrnes (1941-1942). He did not graduate from high school and taught himself law, passing the bar at the age of 23.
Robert H. Jackson (1941-1954). While Jackson did not attend an undergraduate college, he did study law at Albany Law School in New York. At the time of his graduation, Jackson was only twenty years old and one of the requirements for a law degree was that students must be twenty-one years old. Thus rather than a law degree, Jackson was awarded with a "diploma of graduation." Twenty-nine years later, Albany Law School belatedly presented Jackson with a law degree noting his original graduating class of 1912.

People say "qualifications to be a Supreme Court justice." A lot of justices had no judicial experience before they sat on the Court. A good majority have had no judicial experience.
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CWO4 Terrence Clark
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Nice summary.
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SrA John Monette
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They're upset because he's not nominating an alcoholic sexual predator like the orange boy did. Or a wife who thinks her place is in the kitchen cooking for her man.
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Fox news was eerily quiet about trump vowing to select a woman to replace Ginsburg.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/amy-coney-barrett-emerging-front-runner-fill-ginsburg-s-supreme-n1240547
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MSgt Steve Sweeney
MSgt Steve Sweeney
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Eerily, or expectedly? Predictably? Obviously...
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