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swordfishME · 03-05-2008

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Originally Posted by Industrialsize

I think a stronger case could be made that at the first opportunity, PRESIDENT Obama nominate HILLARY Clinton for the supreme court. She is a lawyer. Yes she has never been a judge but there is precedent for nominating a lawyer who has never been a judge. She would never have to worry about being elected again. She would be a thorn in the right's side for the rest of her life. She could push her liberal agenda with gusto with NO political repercusssions....I see a Cief Justic Hillary Clinton in the future. I think she would make a great supreme court justice.

I can see that but not Chief Justice simply because the current chief justice is a decade younger than her and will be around for the next thirty years or so. That’s one of the things that the republican presidents do really well- their SCOTUS nominees are really conservative and relatively young.