Pete Williams: “Of the 17 Chief Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, 8 came to the court without any judicial experience” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 05/16/10 10:52 AM EDT From the May 16 edition of NBC's The Chris Matthews Show: Video file Previously: More on Kagan's experience: Seven of the nine Brown v. Board justices had no prior judicial experience NPR's Totenberg: The “big names in American jurisprudence [are] so often people who came to the court with no prior judicial experience” Ken Starr: Judicial experience is “certainly not necessary,” Kagan “very qualified”
