“Though they make up less than 1 percent of the population, lawyers currently constitute more than one-third of the House of Representatives and more than half the Senate. Fully half of the last ten presidents were lawyers, as are more than a third of the officials now serving in the states as governor, lieutenant governor, and secretary of state,” Bagley writes.88 In the Democratic Party, every presidential and vice presidential nominee from Walter Mondale to Kamala Harris attended law school (Tim Walz, in this respect, was an almost radical break with tradition). When you make legal training
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I thought thus for a long time too but the business of lawmakers is to make laws so it does make sense. And is the fact that lawyers are a small fraction of the population compeling as an argument? Ill bet the fraction of people who are restaurant servers is higher but that doesnt mean the job and training demographics of congress has to redlect the overall population.
