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Obama Doesn't Want to Be Supreme Court Justice: 'Too Monastic For Me'
Weekly Standard ^ | 10/20/2014 | Daniel Halper

Posted on 10/20/2014 1:11:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

President Obama does not want to be a Supreme Court justice. He calls it "too monastic" for his own personality. Besides, in an interview with the New Yorker, President Obama acknowledges that he needs to get out of the "bubble" after what will be eight years as president of the United States.

“I love the law, intellectually,” the president tell the New Yorker, which says he sounds "tempted" at the idea of being on the Court. “I love nutting out these problems, wrestling with these arguments. I love teaching. I miss the classroom and engaging with students. But I think being a Justice is a little bit too monastic for me. Particularly after having spent six years and what will be eight years in this bubble, I think I need to get outside a little bit more.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: justice; obama; scotus; supremecourt
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To: PTBAA

maybe we would find out why he lost his license


21 posted on 10/20/2014 1:20:25 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: SeekAndFind
He is chronically late, that would not sit well with the other Justices when they have to hear cases before them.
22 posted on 10/20/2014 1:21:53 PM PDT by kaila
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To: SeekAndFind

Well he’s giving the SC a pass because Ruth G told him he’d have to wear the black robe, no little black dresses allowed.


23 posted on 10/20/2014 1:25:43 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: SeekAndFind

who is asking him to be such ???


24 posted on 10/20/2014 1:27:20 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama can be the Dark Lord and Colin Powell can be his Darth Vader.


25 posted on 10/20/2014 1:27:33 PM PDT by tips up (Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.)
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To: SeekAndFind

> “I love nutting out these problems, wrestling with these arguments.”

Interesting choice of words given the source...


26 posted on 10/20/2014 1:30:11 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: molson209
It would be nice to watch him EXPLODE from the Senate questions

That assumes they'd ask anything remotely telling.

27 posted on 10/20/2014 1:31:25 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: BenLurkin

Exactly. Kinda the way he’s operated his presidency.


28 posted on 10/20/2014 1:31:57 PM PDT by Obadiah (None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.)
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To: PTBAA
Do you have to be a licensed lawyer to be a Supreme Court Justice?

Nope.
In fact, I think it'd be desirable to have non-lawyers on the USSC.

29 posted on 10/20/2014 1:32:47 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: wrench

“He is also not q lawyer, having surrendered his license to avoid having it taken away”

Yeh that too. LOL!


30 posted on 10/20/2014 1:35:07 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This bum literally couldn’t hack slinging ice cream at the Honolulu Baskin-Robbins. There IS NO JOB he’s qualified for.


31 posted on 10/20/2014 1:35:43 PM PDT by Argus
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To: exit82

Eff that. Why should we feed him. Deport him and all like him. And remind him of the Liberty Tree if he tries to come back.


32 posted on 10/20/2014 1:36:58 PM PDT by RedwM
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To: SeekAndFind

He means it’s too much work


33 posted on 10/20/2014 1:40:29 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: SeekAndFind
the president tell the New Yorker, which says he sounds
"tempted" at the idea of being on the Court

That shoe is usually on the other cloven hoof …

34 posted on 10/20/2014 1:40:51 PM PDT by mikrofon (He also likes da' Hood...)
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To: SeekAndFind
Too monastic?

I dunno, he might have a great time with all those young, male law clerks and dark cloakrooms.

35 posted on 10/20/2014 1:41:03 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, it’ll probably be required that he actually show up on time - and do a little work...


36 posted on 10/20/2014 1:43:13 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: PTBAA

No.


37 posted on 10/20/2014 1:44:36 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: SeekAndFind

“I love the law, intellectually,”


Is that why you were never actually a law professor, you never actually tried any cases, and you “surrendered” your law license under still murky circumstances?


38 posted on 10/20/2014 1:45:37 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: PTBAA

No.


39 posted on 10/20/2014 1:47:33 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: wrench
He is also not q lawyer, having surrendered his license to avoid having it taken away.

A law degree is not a requirement to be on the SCOTUS.

It wouldn't matter in his case anyway...just like any other requirement or law.

40 posted on 10/20/2014 1:49:40 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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