For those of you who don't know this. Obama is a Constitutional Law Scholar and was a Law Professor doing this at a well known University before becoming a Senator or President. He was also the first black president of the Harvard Law Review (I thought it was the Yale Law review). So, understanding that Obama ALREADY is a Constitutional Law Scholar of great reputation already makes sense when considering him to be a Justice of the Supreme Court.
Democratic
presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton gets plenty of whack-a-doodle
questions during her campaign rallies, but one in particular on Tuesday
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Hillary says appointing Barack Obama to the Supreme Court would be 'a great idea'
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton
gets plenty of whack-a-doodle questions during her campaign rallies,
but one in particular on Tuesday struck her fancy: Would she nominate
President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court?
'Wow,
what a great idea!' Clinton said during a campaign stop in which she
had offered her microphone to front-row listeners after her stump
speech. A middle-aged man had asked the question shortly and simply.
'Nobody
has ever suggested that to me Wow,' Clinton said. 'I love that. Wow. He
may have a few other things to do, but I'll tell you, it's a great
idea.'
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Democratic presidential front-runner
Hillary Clinton fielded a variety of questions at a town hall event in
Iowa on Tuesday, including an unexpected one - would she nominate
President Obama to the Supreme Court?
Clinton
went on to say she agreed with the questioner's initial assertion -
that America's next president could have the opportunity to appoint up
to three Supreme Court justices - and said 'the Supreme Court,
unfortunately, has been heading in the wrong direction' in recent years.
'We
need new justices who actually understand the challenges we face. I
can't tell if it's just naivete or if its ideological, theoretical
views,' she said.
Clinton
slammed the Court's recent judgments on the Voting Rights Act, of which
a provision was stripped out, as well as the Citizens United decision,
which allowed corporations to funnel money towards political candidates
as free speech.
She
then stepped back to note that 'three sets of billionaires are running
ads against me,' ostensibly referring to GOP front-runner Donald Trump
and the Republican-aligned Koch Brothers.
Former
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, also a billionaire, is flirting
with the idea of a presidential run but has not yet aired any ads.
'I
would certainly take that under advisement,' Clinton told a crowd of
about 450 inside a ballroom. 'I mean he's brilliant, and he can set
forth an argument, and he was a law professor, so he's got all the
credentials.'
Clinton agreed with her questioner's
assertion that the next US president may get the opportunity to nominate
up to three new Supreme Court justices
'Now we do have to get a Democratic Senate to get him confirmed, so you're going to have to help me on that, OK?' she added.
Obama
has been asked the question before - and there is precedent. In 1921,
eight years after leaving the presidency, William Howard Taft was
nominated by President Warren Harding to serve on the Supreme Court as
its Chief Justice.
Taft - to date the only U.S. president to go on to serve on the Supreme Court - served until 1930.
For his part, Obama has been asked the question before.
In 2014, in an interview with the New Yorker, he was uncertain.
'I
love the law, intellectually,' Obama said, '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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Obama Was Breaking Barriers 25 Years Ago Today
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President Barack Obama became the first black president 25 years ago today -- of the Harvard Law Review, that is.
The New York Times shared a scree...
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President Barack Obama became the first black president 25 years ago today -- of the Harvard Law Review, that is.
The New York Times shared a screenshot Friday of their 1990 profile of Obama, which ran after he became the first black student elected to preside over the Review. Obama was 28 years old at the time.
In the 1990 interview, Obama told the Times that he believed his election showed "a lot of progress."
"'It's encouraging," he said. "But it's important that stories like mine aren't used to say that everything is O.K. for blacks. You have to remember that for every one of me, there are hundreds or thousands of black students with at least equal talent who don't get a chance."
The profile explained that the president of the Review "usually goes on to serve as a clerk for a judge on the Federal Court of Appeals for a year, and then as a clerk for an associate justice of the Supreme Court." Obama followed a less conventional path, it seems.
Read the full profile here.
The New York Times shared a screenshot Friday of their 1990 profile of Obama, which ran after he became the first black student elected to preside over the Review. Obama was 28 years old at the time.
In the 1990 interview, Obama told the Times that he believed his election showed "a lot of progress."
"'It's encouraging," he said. "But it's important that stories like mine aren't used to say that everything is O.K. for blacks. You have to remember that for every one of me, there are hundreds or thousands of black students with at least equal talent who don't get a chance."
The profile explained that the president of the Review "usually goes on to serve as a clerk for a judge on the Federal Court of Appeals for a year, and then as a clerk for an associate justice of the Supreme Court." Obama followed a less conventional path, it seems.
Read the full profile here.
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