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Why Obama Should Nominate Barack Obama For The Supreme Court Vacancy The
solution to this political problem is staring at him in the mirror.
02/16/2016 01:43 pm ET | *Updated* 3 hours ago


- Ryan Grim <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-grim> Washington Bureau
Chief, The Huffington Post

Photo illustration by Kate Sheppard/Huffington Post, with images from AP
Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
President Barack Obama could just nominate himself to the Supreme Court
vacancy left by the unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans have insisted that no matter who President
Barack Obama nominates for the Supreme Court, there will be no hearings, no
votes, no nothing. But there may be one potential candidate that
Republicans would have a hard time blocking: Obama could appoint
<https://twitter.com/ZachWahls/status/698630545073430528> constitutional
law professor Barack Obama.

There's roughly a zero percent chance this'll happen, but here's why it
makes sense: Appointing Obama would put the GOP in the position they've
desperately wanted to be in since the man was inaugurated. They'd have the
chance to vote him out of office. If he's truly as dangerous and
illegitimate a president as Republicans say, then this is their opportunity
to get him out of the White House by putting him on the court.

The move would also give Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell a chance to
virtually guarantee that he remains Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
(McConnell would have to persuade his colleagues not to filibuster.) Some
of the most vulnerable Republicans would have their 2016 chances boosted by
voting to confirm Obama. Sens. Pat Toomey (Pa.), Rob Portman (Ohio), Kelly
Ayotte (N.H.) and Ron Johnson (Wis.) would be assured re-election if they
could peel off a small portion of Democratic voters grateful for the
bipartisan move.

With those four alone, Democrats would have 50 votes, a tie that could be
broken by Vice President Joe Biden -- who would be all too pleased to cast
the deciding vote to make himself president, even if he'd become one of the
shortest-serving presidents in history. And Biden, of course, would then
name his longtime ally and Senate successor Ted Kaufman as vice president.
If Biden happened to meet the same sudden fate as Antonin Scalia did,
Kaufman could quickly go about the business of breaking up the banks.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-ted-kaufman/obamas-big-bank-opportuni_b_3109801.html>

White House aide Eric Schultz, asked if Obama had considered nominating
Obama, noted that the president "has said he's not interested in being a
Supreme Court justice," citing a New Yorker article
<http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/obama-brief> by Jeffrey
Toobin and a recent interview on Ellen
<http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/la-et-st-ellen-degeneres-president-obama-discussion-20160212-story.html>.


Sure, Obama may have said that, but what if the president himself called on
him to serve? Wouldn't that change his thinking?

"The press corps is officially unhinged," Schultz suggested.

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On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Eric Schwerin <
eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com> wrote:

>
>
> http://www.salon.com/2016/02/16/samantha_bee_to_mitch_mcconnell_what_better_way_to_honor_americas_greatest_champion_of_original_intent_than_by_wiping_your_obstructionist_ass_on_the_very_document_he_holds_so_dear/?source=newsletter
>
> Samantha Bee to Mitch McConnell: “What better way to honor America’s
> greatest champion of original intent than by wiping your obstructionist ass
> on the very document he holds so dear”
>
> Unsurprisingly, Samantha Bee is still killing the game after her sophomore
> episode of “Full Frontal.” This week Bee tackled Scalia’s successor and the
> GOP debate.
>
> On Mitch McConnell’s argument that President Obama, as a lame duck
> president, should forego a Supreme Court nomination: “What better way to
> honor America’s greatest champion of original intent than by wiping your
> obstructionist ass on the very document he holds so dear.”
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>
> “Let’s just have a Supreme Court vacancy for a year because some chinless
> dildo wants a justice who’ll use his gavel to plug up your abortion hole,”
> Bee added. “Filling Court vacancies is one of only three jobs a president
> actually has: appointing justices, bombing the shit out of the Middle East,
> and turkey pardoning. That’s it.”
>
> Despite his decidedly conservative stances, “we can still find some nice
> things to say about him,” Bee said of Scalia. “If you like the freedom to
> play violent video games, watch Internet porn, and grow weed in your house
> without police using thermal imaging to bust you, you owe a debt to Antonin
> Scalia.”
>
> “You also probably work on my staff,” Bee added.
>
> Watch Samantha Bee’s on-point analysis below:
>
> <http://www.salon.com/2016/02/16/samantha_bee_to_mitch_mcconnell_what_better_way_to_honor_americas_greatest_champion_of_original_intent_than_by_wiping_your_obstructionist_ass_on_the_very_document_he_holds_so_dear/>
>
>
> Eric D. Schwerin
> eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>


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