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Defend America on Thursday, February 18, 2010 7:36:35 PM
Supreme Court Justice Barack Obama?
By Jeffrey Rosen
Sunday, February 21, 2010;
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He's too detached and cerebral. Too deferential to Congress. Too
willing to compromise. And he's too much of a law professor and not
enough of a commander in chief, as Sarah Palin recently admonished.
These are some of the qualities for which the president, rightly or
wrongly, is criticized. They are also the qualities that make him well
suited for another steady job on the federal payroll: Barack Obama,
Supreme Court justice.
Think about it. Though Obama has struggled to find his footing in
the White House, his education, temperament and experience make him
ideally suited to lead the liberal wing of the court, especially at a
time when a narrow conservative majority seems increasingly intent on
challenging progressive economic reforms for the first time since the
New Deal. Obama is clearly eager to take on the four truly conservative
justices -- Samuel Alito, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia and Clarence
Thomas -- as his State of the Union smackdown
suggests. But as president, he's constrained by that pesky separation
of powers. So what better way to engage the fight than to join the
bench?
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