Is the Senator aware that Felix Frankfurter and Earl Warren and Byron White and Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist and Stephen Breyer and Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun and Warren Burger and Ruth Bader Ginsburg all had no prior judicial experience before they were appointed and confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court?
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