So Obama’s going into TV. What’s next for him? A game show host like Trump? Granted, I could see him chairing Have I Got News For You. He’s got years before retirement and he has to earn his crust somehow, but I really don’t think Americans (outside the Dope) appreciate the magnitude of what he accomplished, allowing America to recover from the crash of 2007/8 (and he bagged Bin Laden) and America should make better use of him. SCOTUS seems an obvious place, as does Ambassador to the UN, but politics comes into both of those.
Although I might be interested in having a former president and constitutional scholar on the Supreme Court, he doesn’t appear to be interested* and I (sadly) expect a certain segment of the population would be filled with blinding rage at the mere possibility.
Most of the options for government work would force them to live in DC again, and they’ve made it clear that they don’t want to.
It would be crazy to have him on the Supreme Court. He’d be pressured to recuse himself anytime a case cane before the court that was either considering one of his policies or that was in some way tangentially related to it. Plus, why would he want to tether himself to that job for the rest of his life? I guess if he really wanted Michelle to divorce him, he might consider it.
Calling him a constitutional scholar is a bit of a reach. AFAIK, he hasn’t published any work. He hasn’t worked in the field since forever. He’d be a ridiculous SC nominee.
No. I’m sure he knows his stuff well enough but like I said, he never published anything and I seem to remember a good portion of that professor job was part time. Add in that was decades ago.
I think you’re splitting hairs here. Why not give Chimera the benefit of the doubt and parse his post as saying “former president and [former] constitutional scholar”. I don’t think anyone is claiming that Obama currently operates as any kind of a scholar.
It’s just such a lame claim to suitability for the job. He was a part time prof 15 years ago. Look at Kagan, she was tenured by 2 different law schools, published well know papers and was dean of Harvard law, interspersed with actual lawyer jobs. If you think it’d be neat to have a legal scholar on the bench, well you already got one.
There are some good reasons why Obama shouldn’t be on the bench, but “not qualified” isn’t one of them. His resume is fine, and “Constitutional Scholar” is just one bullet point on the resume anyway.