Albert R. Hunt, Columnist

The Supreme Court Could Use a Few Good Politicians

Justices who have faced voters could teach legal intellectuals a lot.

July 15, 2018 at 2:00 PM UTC

Albert R. Hunt is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was the executive editor of Bloomberg News, before which he was a reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor at the Wall Street Journal.

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If the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is confirmed, he and his fellow justices will all be graduates of Ivy League law schools: four from Harvard, four from Yale and one from Columbia. Five have been clerks for Supreme Court justices and seven served on a U.S. Court of Appeals.

All nine would have something else in common: None ever faced a voter.