"Most recent" justice not to have graduated law school might be better. O'Connor's and Souter's retirements both prompted yammerings from the peanut gallery, and in the latter case even from a veteran of the Senate Judiciary Committee, that legal experience is not so important in a justice. Harriet Myers got nominated never having been a judge. She didn't get confirmed, of course, and even if she had there'd still be another big step to take to get back to the days of non-lawyers on the Court, but I'm much less certain that step will be taken than I'd like to be. Turtle Fan 13:55, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
- And since writing that we've got someone who's never been a judge apparently sailing through the confirmation process, though it seems to be moving awfully slowly. Turtle Fan 22:25, July 15, 2010 (UTC)
Should we have a category for Nureberg legal staff? I don't think we could have judges and prosecutors seperately, but we could have them together, and since HT is still telling a WWII story, there's some possibility for growth. If we add defendants to the category there's a very good chance that will grow. Turtle Fan 22:25, July 15, 2010 (UTC)
- I don't expect TWTPE to get to that. The early break out of the war seems to have put the Holocaust on hold. (Or maybe I'm just being unduly optimistic).
- I doubt HT could do Nazis without the Holocaust. Also, not everyone at Nuremburg was a genocidaire, or not principally; it was also full of generals and poliicians, both of whom should be in Berlin. Turtle Fan 01:47, July 16, 2010 (UTC)
- Anyhoo--How many judges, lawyers and defendants do we have at this point? TR 00:51, July 16, 2010 (UTC)
- Five judges (Francis Biddle, Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey, Henri Donnedieu de Vabres, and Iona Nikitchenko); one prosecutor (Robert Jackson); and a whopping ten defendants (Karl Dönitz, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, Albert Speer, and Julius Streicher).
- By my count two of those defendants have already appeared in TWTPE in capacities unrelated to the Holocaust. I have to say, reading through the whole list of defendants and the indictments obtained against many of them, I do have to think Nuremburg was in part blatant victors' justice. Though a few of the defendants whose indictments seemed the most flagrantly manufactured to me were acquitted, to be fair. Turtle Fan 01:47, July 16, 2010 (UTC)