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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Damn right—if the Democrats are not defeated in the November election.
We can put nothing past him. Nothing at all.
The sorry POS wouldn’t be up to the job. He is totally unqualified.
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.â€
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!
Thank you for the most rational analysis. You are exactly right.
Hillary is just pandering to the pro-Obama voters in her party. She hates Obama and would never select him. She would go for someone much younger and female.
... and he is far, far too lazy.
... and he is far, far too lazy.
That’s right.
After he leaves, he will combine partying with other Internationalists, New World Order Elites, in undermining the USA.
He wouldn’t take the job. He will be the wealthiest billionaire ex president in history. His filthy paws are in everything that will make money. Thebonly thing he wants more than money is power. And he can’t get it with 8 other people in the room.
He’s not eligible to run again, even as VP.
Well, THAT we already know.
Soetoro, having “served” two terms as “President,” cannot be elected VP, because the VP must be eligible to the office of President. Of course, since Soetoro is an illegal alien...
Yes Baraq and MooseChelle will tap a huge lode of cash for POTUS pardons and live like potentates for the next 40 years.
The Baraq Obama Foundation will make the Clinton Global Initiative look like play money.
Were they ever?
Don't know if it's come up before.
Makes Scalia's untimely death dven more important.
Not.
A VP who serves less than half of a deceased President’s term may run for two terms of his own. But a person who has served two full terms of his own cannot be elected VP in the hopes of serving two more years, just as he could not run for a third term as President while promising to resign after two years!
A friend brought it up and I told him that I'd look into it.
I know that the amendment does not define the term limit as “eight years” or “ten years.” It speaks of “terms.” No one is permitted, after being elected to and serving two terms as POTUS, to be elected again, or to serve any additional time as POTUS. Thus, no one who has served eight years as POTUS is allowed to be elected VP, because the qualifications for VP are identical to those for President.
Suppose a one-term President ran for VP. He would be eligible to serve another four-year term if the President dropped dead on Inauguration Day. Or, he could serve less than half of someone else’s term, and run for one more term of his own.
Just a mental exercise...but...
But it IS spelled out.
A person who is not qualified to be elected President is not qualified to be elected VP. That’s what the Constitution says.
Thus: Having completed two elected terms as POTUS, Soetoro is not eligible to the office of POTUS. Therefore, he is not eligible to the office of VP.
Precedent has nothing to do with it. Our Constitution does not take account of “precedent.”
Mames sense. Thanks.
MAKES sense. Thanks.
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