Law Amusement
Surreal law facts
The truth is always stranger than fiction.
News for the condemned
In Paris, on every day of the French Revolution that the guillotine was scheduled to fall, a newspaper for all those being held on death row was published.
The Journal des Racourcis was published from June 1877 to 1878.
US Supreme Court: non-lawyers can apply
United States Supreme Court judges are not required by law to be lawyers. But only three members have ever been appointed outside the pool of practising lawyers, lower-court judges or law school professors - all lawyers and attorneys.
According to University of Richmond law professor John Paul Jones:
"No prior experience as a judge, no expertise as a constitutionalist - indeed, no training in the law at all, is formally necessary."
The Supreme Court Historical Society writes:
"The president's choices for appointment to the Court have all been lawyers, although there is no constitutional or legal requirement to that effect."
Lawmaker elected 28 times
The Greeks thought they had this democracy thing all figured out. Hold elections once in a while and soon enough, you're bound to clean the slate of old wood.
Not so in North Carolina two hundred years ago where Wilkes County elected war veteran James Wellborn (1767-1854) as Senator in 1796, and then re-elected him again 27 times between 1797 and 1835.
Source: www.duhaime.org.
