Biden Says He'd Appoint Obama To Supreme Court

White House aspirants have a lot on their wishlists yet they seldom go to town with their choices for federal judges and Supreme Court justices. When former Vice President Joe Biden was asked about who he would consider to appoint to the Supreme Court, he suggested his former boss: Barack Obama.

The question was raised by a supporter at a rally in Iowa this weekend, reports the New York Times. In response, Biden said that he would nominate Obama, but only if he would “take it, yes.”

For some, the idea of a former two-term president serving on the Supreme Court might sound outlandish. And although it is not a common event, Obama wouldn’t be the first to go from the White House to the Supreme Court – William Howard Taft did just that a century ago.

Though Obama hasn’t shown any clear desire to become a Supreme Court justice, he isn’t lacking in credentials. The former president got his law degree at Harvard where he eventually earned the distinction of being the Harvard Law Review’s first black president. For a time, he was also a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago.

Obama has been keeping quiet, even declining to endorse anyone seeking the Democrats’ nomination for president. Insiders, however, have said that Obama has been quietly talking up Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

When Biden began his campaign, he was heavily criticized for seeming to be leaning heavily on his time as vice president in the Obama administration. Since then, Biden has gently distanced himself from Obama, but his recent remark shows that he’s still well aware that the former president commands a great deal of popularity among Democratic voters to this day.

Right now, an average of national polling provided by RealClearPolitics shows Biden leading the pack with 28 percent. Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are in second and third place, respectively. Despite Biden’s national lead, he is behind in at least four key battleground states. In New Hampshire, both Sanders and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg are ahead of Biden, whereas there is a virtual three-way lead in California between Biden, Sanders and Warren.