Posted on 02/14/2016 10:32:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Can a former POTUS go to work on the SCOTUS? Hillary Clinton thinks so.
At an event in Iowa, an audience member asked Mrs. Clinton, a Democratic presidential candidate, whether she would nominate President Obama for a role on the Supreme Court if she became the next president. Mrs. Clinton responded immediately, according to CBS News:
Wow, what a great idea. Nobody has ever suggested that to me. Wow, I love that, wow. He may have a few other things to do, but I tell you that's a great idea ... He's brilliant and he can set forth an argument and he was a law professor. He's got all the credentials.
Currently, Supreme Court justices have an average age of around 75, according to birthdates available from the Supreme Court website. Four of the justices will be over 80 by the end of the next presidential term, leading many to assume that the next president, Republican or Democrat, will likely appoint at least one Supreme Court justice....
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I don’t care which one.
Yeah, I think he would make a great Supreme Court justice, with his extensive Constitutional background. And he has a thing for briefs.
Maybe the 0bomb will nominate himself. But no, he wants to be king of the world.
Munch, munch...
The only way Obama would do that is if he could be the ONLY justice on the SC. He could then continue to write the equivalent of executive orders.
Obama doesn’t play well with others. It’s his way or the highway.
This “audience member” couldn’t have been a plant. Oh no.
And Hillary really was surprised by this great question— from a real live audience member who was not a plant! — that she never would have come up with otherwise! (snort!)
I agree, he isn't qualified to be a dog catcher, so he will almost certainly be nominated.
Obama can’t write. He CANNOT get his verbs and nouns to agree in number.
Also, 99% of USSC cases are boring corporate law. Obama would run screaming from the building after a couple of months. He is lazy, and TOTALLY unqualified to do the job.
That is true, but he doesn't want the job in any case. From the bottom of the article:
“When I got out of law school, I chose not to clerk,” he told the New Yorker. “Partly because I was an older student, but partly because I don’t think I have the temperament to sit in a chamber and write opinions.”
A wise choice at the time, and in retrospect, given his affirmative-action credentials.
Plus, actually working, as opposed to organizing, is no fun. Alinsky would no doubt back him up on that.
Then there is the problem that he is an ex-President. Ex-Presidents have lots of income opportunities that would have an "off" smell if the individual were a Justice! Best to cross off "federal judge" from the list of possible ex-presidential gigs! Speaking, yea! Opinion-writing, nay!
Zero isn't Supreme Court material. If we win, he won't get the offer. If they win, he'll decline. It's too much like a real job, not to mention, one for which he is not qualified!
Nobody has ever been Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Many have, however, been Chief Justice of the United States.
Barack is too lazy to be a Supreme Court justice. He would never take the job.
It’s pretty clear Barry and Michelle aren’t together any more.
Kenya is not one of the permanent Security Council countries.
Uh, no. He lost his law license.
There is no requirement to be a lawyer for that job, believe it or not.
Has anyone brought up the fact that The Usurper doesn’t even have a license to practice law?
Gee ..... I guess I could read the thread.
(Nah! Why take the adventure out of posting?)
Maybe as the successor to Alex Trebek and his duties as the host of Jeopardy but the ratings would probably plummet.
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