Hillary says appointing Barack Obama to the Supreme Court would be 'a great idea' 

By J. Taylor Rushing, U.s. Political Reporter, For Dailymail.com-27 January 2016


Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton gets plenty of whack-a-doodle questions during her campaign rallies, but one in particular on Tuesday struck her fancy: Would she nominate President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court?

'Wow, what a great idea!' Clinton said during a campaign stop in which she had offered her microphone to front-row listeners after her stump speech. A middle-aged man had asked the question shortly and simply.

'Nobody has ever suggested that to me Wow,' Clinton said. 'I love that. Wow. He may have a few other things to do, but I'll tell you, it's a great idea.'

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton fielded a variety of questions at a town hall event in Iowa on Tuesday, including an unexpected one - would she nominate President Obama to the Supreme Court?

Clinton went on to say she agreed with the questioner's initial assertion - that America's next president could have the opportunity to appoint up to three Supreme Court justices - and said 'the Supreme Court, unfortunately, has been heading in the wrong direction' in recent years.

'We need new justices who actually understand the challenges we face. I can't tell if it's just naivete or if its ideological, theoretical views,' she said.

Clinton slammed the Court's recent judgments on the Voting Rights Act, of which a provision was stripped out, as well as the Citizens United decision, which allowed corporations to funnel money towards political candidates as free speech.

She then stepped back to note that 'three sets of billionaires are running ads against me,' ostensibly referring to GOP front-runner Donald Trump and the Republican-aligned Koch Brothers.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, also a billionaire, is flirting with the idea of a presidential run but has not yet aired any ads.

'I would certainly take that under advisement,' Clinton told a crowd of about 450 inside a ballroom. 'I mean he's brilliant, and he can set forth an argument, and he was a law professor, so he's got all the credentials.'

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