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Supreme Court Justice Barack H. Obama? Joe Biden says ‘Hell yes!’

You know who would truly make a great UN General Secretary? Michel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator on Brexit.... my hat is off to that guy - he knew exactly the right line to take to divide the British Conservative party. I think having him mediate global confrontations would do wonders... he'd have both sides of any conflict so busy fighting themselves that they wouldn't have any time to fight each other!

As for Supreme Court, I'd leave it to the pros... I'd like to see an Appellate nominee with a good head on their shoulders, and preferably not on the DC Circuit. I'm thinking Jane Kelly out in the 8th Circuit would be an awesome pick.

Plus... she graduated from Harvard Law in '91 - the same class as Barack Obama and Neal Gorsuch.

her academic record is pretty strong but not quite the level of the last several USSC justices-she was not a harvard Magna which is usually the top 50 people in a class as was Obama or Gorsuch and certainly not in Robert's league (first). However, I'd hate to be defending a criminal accused of assaulting a jogger in a court where she is presiding.
 
her academic record is pretty strong but not quite the level of the last several USSC justices-she was not a harvard Magna which is usually the top 50 people in a class as was Obama or Gorsuch and certainly not in Robert's league (first). However, I'd hate to be defending a criminal accused of assaulting a jogger in a court where she is presiding.

Gorsuch was cum laude.... same as Kelly. Obama was magna.
 
Gorsuch was cum laude.... same as Kelly. Obama was magna.

There is a wide range there in those ranks. Oftentimes, Harvard does not have a summa graduate in the class so the #1 is a magna. One of the top guys to have graduated Harvard in thirty years was Paul Clement-SG under Bush-he was only magna as was Roberts. Gorsuch had a key credential she does not have, he was a Supreme court Clerk.
 
There is a wide range there in those ranks. Oftentimes, Harvard does not have a summa graduate in the class so the #1 is a magna. One of the top guys to have graduated Harvard in thirty years was Paul Clement-SG under Bush-he was only magna as was Roberts. Gorsuch had a key credential she does not have, he was a Supreme court Clerk.

Being a Supreme Court Clerk usually just means you have better connections then other equally-qualified applicants.
 
Being a Supreme Court Clerk usually just means you have better connections then other equally-qualified applicants.

really? the connections are usually because you clerked for a "feeder" judge-a Court of Appeals judge whose talent in picking clerks is well respected by the USSC. Now I did not have the desire nor the credentials to be a supreme court clerk. I was not an editor on the law journal. But I have several close friends who did clerk for the USSC and all were clerks for "feeder"judges (including two who clerked for Scalia when he was a CoA Judge) but who came from middle class backgrounds with no real connections. Now another one was the nephew of Yale Law School's Dean and that cannot be denied may well helped him, though Dean (now Judge) Guido Calabresi and Scalia were quite opposite in their legal views.
 
He is a constitutional scholar

With absolutely NO experience. If you think the last SCOTUS approval was a s*** show, wait until Barry comes up. Real problems, and already out in the open.
 
False he is a constitutional scholar

False, he is a community organizer, a graduate with NO experience, and in his own words, which will come back to haunt him, "lacks the temperament" to sit on any bench. Good luck with that.
 
That don't mean **** if he wipes his ass with the Bill of Rights.

He is a constitutional scholar. Trump gets confused reading the funnies
 
False, he is a community organizer, a graduate with NO experience, and in his own words, which will come back to haunt him, "lacks the temperament" to sit on any bench. Good luck with that.

You are factually incorrect.


I accept your concession
 
With absolutely NO experience. If you think the last SCOTUS approval was a s*** show, wait until Barry comes up. Real problems, and already out in the open.

Here at least you admit he is a constitutional scholar
 
Its always nice of you to insert your childish worldview into a thread, but this isnt really about Obama. Its about Bidens continued attempt to ride Obamas coattails. And were Biden to nominate Obama to the bench, it wouldnt bother me one bit. Obama is a political force but he doesnt have the legal chops to fetch RBG's coffee.

Absolutely. Shameless pandering.
 
I am absolutely correct, and I accept your retraction.

See? Two can play that game...

You deny he taught constitutional law? Really?



That is hilarious
 
really? the connections are usually because you clerked for a "feeder" judge-a Court of Appeals judge whose talent in picking clerks is well respected by the USSC. Now I did not have the desire nor the credentials to be a supreme court clerk. I was not an editor on the law journal. But I have several close friends who did clerk for the USSC and all were clerks for "feeder"judges (including two who clerked for Scalia when he was a CoA Judge) but who came from middle class backgrounds with no real connections. Now another one was the nephew of Yale Law School's Dean and that cannot be denied may well helped him, though Dean (now Judge) Guido Calabresi and Scalia were quite opposite in their legal views.

C'mon Turtle... are you really going to tell me that Gorsuch's mother didn't open doors for him where it came to getting jobs for Reagan-era appointees? I'm not saying that he wasn't qualified - just that he had the qualifications plus the connections.
 
Here at least you admit he is a constitutional scholar

He hasn't shown that he is any kind of "scholar", and I certainly didn't admit anything of the sort. If you think that, you need reading remediation....
 
He hasn't shown that he is any kind of "scholar", and I certainly didn't admit anything of the sort. If you think that, you need reading remediation....

Uh....he showed it when he was at work teaching constitutional law.


My God you are hilarious
 
C'mon Turtle... are you really going to tell me that Gorsuch's mother didn't open doors for him where it came to getting jobs for Reagan-era appointees? I'm not saying that he wasn't qualified - just that he had the qualifications plus the connections.

Gorsuch was a MARSHALL Scholar

and I noted that SOME Clerks I knew didn't have any connections. One was a math professor in KY, the wife of a math professor in KY who decided to to law school several years after teaching. Another was from a lower-middle class Jewish family.
 
No, he's a "Community Organizer", and that's all the qualifications he has ever had.

I don't have much use for Obama but I disagree with you. Obama was the president of the Harvard law Review. That means some level of legal scholarship and some rather impressive political skills. But he also was a Lecturer in constitutional law at one of the very finest law schools in the Nation, the U of Chicago law school and while that is not a tenure path position-IIRC-it still is a position that requires constitutional scholarship (lecturers are normally not expected to publish or do research, but they still have to remain current in constitutional scholarship developments.

There are many reasons why Obama shouldn't be considered for a supreme court position but there is no need to ignore the fact that he has some credentials in his background that do qualify as scholarship
 
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