You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real. ↗
I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control. ↗
You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts. ↗