Fred Thompson on DoJ brief

I loved this quote in the article:
"We must never let the elites claim that only they can tell us what the Constitution means. That is a usurpation of the power we took from the King, transferred to five lawyers.

The elites construct an edifice of words to make things complicated to give themselves power."

The man gets it... and is willing to say what every other power-hungry politician is loathe to admit, because they see themselves in that mirror.
I would hate to see an all no-lawyer S.C., but I think that, along with the "female" and "black" seats that custom and politics have given us, a "not-a-lawyer" seat. I think that the leavening would produce better constitutional decisions, although this person would probably be a drag on the "law" issues that regularly make there way there.