Justice Bill Clinton? Justice Howard Dean?

[Project Grudge]

Wouldn't that rock your world.






*edited for specifics.

[aquart]

1. No. What ridiculous proposals.

Neither of them has any judicial experience. BOTH of them have HUGE political value. The effect of a court appointment would be to politically silence them forever.

Stupid idea. The only level on which it works is as a Rovian revenge plot.

[DrDan]

2. you are joking - right?

Smacks of partisanship - at the expense of a progressive judicial appointment.

[Raven]

3. Neither one of them is qualified for the Supreme Court. Obama

will pick an accomplished jurist and legal scholar and it will likely be a woman. Interesting that barely into his Presidency, Obama now faces another historic challenge.

[Bonn1997]

7. What are the supreme court qualifications?

I wouldn't pick them; that said, I don't like the "is this person qualified" arguments we hear all the time in politics.

[pipoman]

4. Nothing would be worse than

starting a precedent of appointing partisans to the court. Ideology and a record of outstanding constitutional jurisprudence is and should be the basis for appointment, not political name recognition. Who would want a bunch of compromised political hacks on the court regardless of their party?

[malaise]

5. Wasn't Clinton disbarred for lying? n/t

[Bonn1997]

6. You don't have to even be a lawyer to be on the supreme court

[mod mom]

10. and do we need another corporatist on the SCOTUS? It's already stacked in their favor

[droidamus2]

8. Sure its a joke

As long as we are joking about who should be appointed I have no specific candidates in mind but assuage as many groups as possible I think President Obama should find a very qualified, Hispanic woman that happens to be a lesbian to fill Souters seat. Only because I like to see conservatives heads explode.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

9. Hello???? And what part of DOCTOR Dean makes him a Constitutional Scholar?

And Clinton, I don't think so.

[stlsaxman]

11. No and No. Clinton for the history books and Dean for Surgeon General.

[H2O Man]

12. No.

[Romulox]

13. Keep the DLC out of the SCOTUS, for the love of god!

Cheap labor is NOT a civil right.

[Bandit]

14. How about Janet Reno

Can you just hear the screech and wails from the Right?