Posted on 08/01/2016 4:50:12 PM PDT by Jim Noble
BY NOW it is clear that Merrick Garland, President Obama’s nomination to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Antonin Scalia’s death, is not going anywhere. But if Hillary Clinton wins the White House, Senate Republicans may make a desperate about-face during the lame-duck session to lock in the moderate Garland before the arrival of Clinton and a possibly more left-leaning candidate. By then, however, it will be too late.
Sorry, Judge Garland, but what Clinton should do if she wins is make clear that her choice will be none other than Barack Obama, a former professor of constitutional law, and the perfect choice to assume his place on the nation’s highest court. Naturally there will be a lot of gnashing of Republican teeth, but this scenario assumes that the Democrats will regain the Senate in the wake of an electoral debacle by Donald Trump
There are four good reasons why the second Clinton should follow this obvious course of action....
But our present president could better serve the nation as a Supreme Court justice after he leaves office, taking his place beside the four other liberal justices. Or counting another way, beside the other five Harvard Law School graduates on the court. And given his lack of interest in retail politicking, he might even enjoy it more than being president.
All this rests on the assumption that Clinton wins in November. What if Trump wins? Well, then all bets are off, and not just those concerning the Supreme Court.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
That's what the clerks are for!
Obama is not going to work. He will be getting paid millions to read from a TelePrompTer. Maybe even set his own foundation up.
a former professor of constitutional law
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False.
He was never a professor of Constitutional Law.
He was an adjunct lecturer and lectured on “The Rules For Radicals”
He taught rabble-rousing.
Oh, for God’s sake: He was NOT a professor of constitutional law. He was a lecturer, which in many ways is akin to a graduate assistant.
In other words those who vote their agenda.
HDS Greenway-pretentious, loathe some, libtard.
Guest lecturer...And full of the well-known substance re: The Constitution...
STILL too much work!
If Clinton wins and Garland is still stuck in the Senate Obama will withdraw the Garland nomination and give the green light to Clinton. Immediatley Obama has an IOU with Clinton which can can collect anyway he wants.
If Hillary wins, Garland is going under the bus and she will appoint someone that makes Obama look like Barry Goldwater.
He wasn’t even that. He gave a couple of lectures on Alinsky.
Whenever I hear of B.O.'s *ahem* knowledge of the constitution
a distant memory of an elderly farmer I knew, while walking off to the outhouse would chime
"I'm going to take care of my daily constitutional..."
THAT is the constitution that should be associated with
B.(don't forget the Hussein) O.
Obama would still have to get threw the Senate and a Big Background check
Pray.
Absolutely not Obama.....let him get lost.
The closest Obama needs to get to a court is sitting in the dock at a War Crimes tribunal at The Hague. Along with Hillary, of course, for their crimes against humanity in Syria and Libya.
LOL
Obama for latrine cleaner.
Even by the Massachusetts standards exemplified in the Boston Globe, this is a shockingly stupid idea. I just hope the communist traitor is so busy getting stoned and doing gross things with men who get a tingle up their legs at the thought of him that he won’t have time to do any more harm to America.
SCOTUS is my justification for Trump.
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