Biden will not and SHOULD not appoint Barack Obama.....

[brooklynite]

...who is 61 years old. By comparison, Amy Coney Barrett is 49.

[snowybirdie]

1. Highly doubt

Pres. Obama would want to give up his lifestyle and lucrative stipends to be on the Court. He's more valuable to Democrats where he is. Now Michelle........ She received a PhD in law recently. Who knows?

[In It to Win It]

2. Politically, that would be stupid. Honestly, I don't even think Obama would make it through

a Senate vote anyway because of how politically stupid that would be.

[brush]

9. Why would iit be stupid? Are you thinking because such an appointment...

might not make it through Senate confirmation? Maybe, maybe not as even the two recalcitrant Democratic senators have been confirming Biden's judicial picks. And nominating Pres. Obama is no more politically stupid than McTurtle stealing a SCOTUS seat from Obama and us Dems for Gorsuch, and later cramming the questionable Kavanaugh and Barrett onto the bench because he knew he had the votes.

My point being so far Biden knows he has the votes since McTurtle himself got rid of the 60-vote requirement in the Senate for SCOTUS justices. Oh the double irony it would be if Pres. O got appointed—double irony in that he had a seat stolen from him by McTurtle and McTurtle was the one who nuked the filibuster in the Senate for SCOTUS justices.

It would be Karmic justice in a way and satisfying irony but I'm not in favor of it, his age being one and two, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't take it. But I don't agree with it being called politically stupid. Politically inexpedient maybe, or partisan, but stupid, no. wrong word choice.

[Deep State Witch]

3. I just hope that Joe picks someone qualified

Unlike Rapey McBeerface or Amy Covid Handmaid.

[brush]

4. Very good point. Pres. O seems at first thought..."why not"...but age...

does have to be considered. Spot on.

[CincyDem]

5. Goodwin Liu is my choice. CA Supreme Court now. n/t

[mcar]

6. He promised to appoint a Black woman

He's got several good candidates who've already been confirmed by this Senate.

[Deuce]

12. I hope he does!

[themaguffin]

7. It's not where Obama would be most helpful to the country.

[Freddie]

8. True, and I doubt if he'd want it anyway

But it would be such fun to watch RWNJ heads explode.

[jmowreader]

10. Yeah, he should

Check it out:

Biden appoints Obama to the Supreme Court.

The entire hard right goes into panic mode. Many of them die from heart attacks, head explosions and other ailments. Many prominent rich Republicans flee to Poland because they can no longer live in a country that would put Obama on the Supreme Court.

After three days, there should be enough Republican depletion in this land to turn Idaho blue, at which point Obama tells the nation that while he’s honored the seat should go to someone younger, and Biden introduces the person he really wants on the Court.

[ificandream]

14. LOL, your post ...

LOL, your post.

Check it out:

Biden appoints Obama to the Supreme Court.

The entire hard right goes into panic mode. Many of them die from heart attacks, head explosions and other ailments. Many prominent rich Republicans flee to Poland because they can no longer live in a country that would put Obama on the Supreme Court.

After three days, there should be enough Republican depletion in this land to turn Idaho blue, at which point Obama tells the nation that while he’s honored the seat should go to someone younger, and Biden introduces the person he really wants on the Court.

[Hekate]

11. There's a lot of qualified people, and some of them are quite young. I'm hoping for young.

The Senate is broken.

[Torchlight]

13. That's certainly another opinion.

I'm guessing President Biden will be getting (and rightfully ignoring) a ton of armchair quarter-backing over the course of the next week.

I'm just curious as to who it will eventually be, regardless of the guess-work by editorials and opinions.

[iemanja]

15. Obama is 60

but I agree that he isn't the best candidate.

[kskiska]

16. I doubt he'd be interested.

It's a pretty cloistered life, I believe.

[Lettuce Be]

17. Why on earth does this even come up? Obama is not interested

He had his fill (I'd imagine) of the horrors of Washington and I seriously doubt he has any interest in getting back in the game.

[liberal_mama]

18. Obama is living the good life now. I doubt he'd want to be involved in this.

He's probably had enough of all this political bullshit.