Posted on 02/04/2015 2:47:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama once mulled whether to make Hillary Clinton a Supreme Court justice, according to his top former adviser.
The Daily News reported Tuesday that former White House official David Axelrod said Obama considered offering Clinton the job after defeating her in the presidential primary six years ago. Axelrod made the claim in his new book, "Believer: My Forty Years in Politics."
The 2008 primary contest was highly charged and at times bitter. Now facing the general election as the Democratic nominee, Obama needed Clinton's supporters to rally behind his candidacy.
At the time, Obama was said to be considering Clinton as a potential vice president. However, that move risked undercutting his own campaign, which long argued Clinton wasn't the right fit for the White House. Some supporters urged Obama to offer Clinton a Supreme Court position instead.
"In exchange for this delicate dance, Obama ought to promise her whatever she wants, including if not especially the first shot at a Supreme Court seat. She’d be a great justice," Salon columnist Thomas Schaller wrote.
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Hmm, I suppose that one of the justices might have to retire first, but hey, rules don’t mean much to this White House...
One way to get her out of his hair for good.
HUH? A sympathy appointment.. She can bunk with what’s her name?
hahahahahahaha
Let’s be thankful that she only became Sec. of State.
A justice will be with us LONG after Obama is gone and will do a lot of damage to the country BEYOND this current disaster of an administration.
” One way to get her out of his hair for good. “
Yup and since they come from the same idealogy she would “vote” for the same agenda in the supreme court....
Wasn’t Hillary disbarred or was just Billy boy?
The RINOs will be falling all over each other to confirm her.
Of course they would. They're senators, Hillary was in the club!
She’s too much of a money-grubber to accept. There’s no way she could cut sweetheart deals to make money based on ruling a certain way.
At this point what difference would it make?
“...one of the justices might have to retire first...”
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No, not really; there is nothing to stop it from happening.
...sub for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, clearly about ready to slump into a long-term coma.
Of course, Herself, Madame Benghazi, the Cold & Joyless, is almost at the same comatose state, so it is like putting Frank Lautenberg in as a substitute for Robert Torricelli in New Jersey.
Just a place-holder.
Well she is the smartest woman in the world. Just ask any liberal.
Would she have been the first disbarred attorney to be appointed to the SCOTUS?
Historic indeed.
Yup.
And Salon columnist Thomas Schaller is really up there in his jurisprudence, eh?
Probably a factor in not naming her. Too O...L...D.
At least that fat old hag probably would not serve too many years before she became physically incapacitated.
If she does get an appointment to the SC, she won’t have to worry about
getting senate confirmation, as I’m sure she still has those FBI files.
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