Congress' job is to write, evaluate, and vote on laws. It makes sense that we have legal experts--IE, lawyers--doing that. I can definitely see a good argument

Congress' job is to write, evaluate, and vote on laws. It makes sense that we have legal experts--IE, lawyers--doing that. I can definitely see a good argument to the contrary: Politicians should be the experts in negotiating/being the interface between field experts (scientists, lawyers, economists) and public values (voters or all citizens). Having them distinct from the legal experts seems sensible. But right now, law is the language of politics/policy, so I'm not sure how this separation would work. Congress can say "NASA, based on your input and the public's preferences, you get these resources to do aeronautics" and leaves the details up to NASA, and that's fine, but if Congress just says "lawyers, based on your input and the public's preferences, write a law on decriminalized cannabis use" and let's the lawyers handle the details....I dunno. Somehow, it feels like law requires less delegation and more technical understanding on the part of Congress than aeronautics does. I see the problem not as too many lawyers, but as corruption (though not in a literal bribery sort of way) and--for lack of a better term--politics. (e.g., the problem isn't lawyers don't believe in climate change. The problem is that climate change has become a political issue that half of the country rejects ideologically.)