Are official qualifications (e.g., degrees, scholarly publications) more important than personal ones (e.g., life experience, personality, values) when it comes to determining the qualities that make a good judge?

What will be an ideal response?


Official qualifications are not more important than personal ones when it comes to determining the qualities that make a good judge. If they were, formal qualifications would be clearly spelled out in the constitution or in federal laws. Local state judges may have more specific requirements when compared to federal judges. Essentially a judge should be educated, professional, and well versed in law and politics.

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a. recorded by local police departments b. reported in the media c. recorded in the courts d. known to the public

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What will be an ideal response?

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