Barack Obama in the Supreme Court? Why ex-POTUS would unlikely accept Joe Biden’s nomination if he wins in 2020

Democratic party presidential hopeful Joe Biden said he is open to nominating Barack Obama if he wins in 2020. However, there are already clues from the past that suggest Obama is unlikely taking up that job offer.

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Aspiring Democratic candidates are hard at work to boost their popularity in the hopes of winning their party’s nomination to take on Donald Trump in the presidential election later this year. While Obama is noticeably maintaining a distance from any of the ongoing campaigns, his name still comes up in rallies now and then.

At a campaign rally in Iowa just a few days before 2019 ended, Biden was asked if he would consider nominating Obama to the Supreme Court. Biden responded briefly, saying, “If he’d take it, yes.”

Interestingly, this was not the first time the former Vice President came across the same question. In his appearance at “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” last September, loud cheers from the live audience filled the studio when Colbert asked him the same thing. Though Biden responded positively, he also noted that he did not think Obama would accept a Supreme Court nomination despite being “highly qualified.”

Obama attended the Harvard Law School in 1988, where he graduated magna cum laude with a Juris Doctor degree after two years. He then worked as a law school professor in Chicago, along with being a civil rights attorney before winning a sit in the U.S. Senate in 2004.

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American history has already seen one former president who later served in the Supreme Court as William Howard Taft was appointed Chief Justice after more than eight years since he left the White House. Obama was already asked the possibility of taking the same route given his qualifications, and Biden has always known that the former president would unlikely take the nomination.

Obama told the New Yorker in 2014 that being a Supreme Court Justice is not something he had in mind. While he reiterated that he loved practicing law and teaching it, he does not see himself going back to it as a profession, especially as a Supreme Court Justice. Obama said at the time, “Being a Justice is a little bit too monastic for me. Particularly after having spent six years and what will be eight years in this bubble, I think I need to get outside a little bit more.”