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Lint Head

(15,064 posts) Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:30 PM Feb 2016

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Who should Obama appoint?

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Who should Obama appoint? (Original Post) Lint Head Feb 2016 OP

Elizabeth Warren greenman3610 Feb 2016 #1

Plenty of judges out there. Why gut the Senate? TwilightGardener Feb 2016 #4

She should be President. Lint Head Feb 2016 #9

I don't know who Nite Owl Feb 2016 #2

Kanye West. WTF. It doesn't matter who he appoints. The GOP Senate won't approve. nt valerief Feb 2016 #3

Hillary Duckhunter935 Feb 2016 #5

Beat me to it. Goblinmonger Feb 2016 #14

Kamala Harris NewHampshiriteGuy Feb 2016 #6

That would be great. I would love to see the GOP Senate Lint Head Feb 2016 #8

My choice as well. And, it would freak out Clarence Thomas. n/t Yavin4 Feb 2016 #11

Ha ha! Perfect. Lint Head Feb 2016 #15

How about Lawrence Lessig? Bohemianwriter Feb 2016 #7

That would be a smart choice. Lint Head Feb 2016 #13

At least then we would rest assured... Bohemianwriter Feb 2016 #18

Jennifer Granholm Siwsan Feb 2016 #10

She would be great! Lint Head Feb 2016 #12

President Sanders should appoint Obama. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2016 #16

Yep. Lint Head Feb 2016 #17

Anyone but a conservative! mvd Feb 2016 #19

I predict Sri Srinivasan oberliner Feb 2016 #20

John Conyers shenmue Feb 2016 #21

greenman3610

(3,947 posts)

1. Elizabeth Warren

Reply to Lint Head (Original post)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:32 PM

Feb 2016

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)

4. Plenty of judges out there. Why gut the Senate?

Reply to greenman3610 (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:33 PM

Feb 2016

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)

9. She should be President.

Reply to greenman3610 (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:39 PM

Feb 2016

Nite Owl

(11,303 posts)

2. I don't know who

Reply to Lint Head (Original post)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:32 PM

Feb 2016

but they should be young, healthy and a proven liberal.

valerief

(53,235 posts)

3. Kanye West. WTF. It doesn't matter who he appoints. The GOP Senate won't approve. nt

Reply to Lint Head (Original post)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:33 PM

Feb 2016

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)

5. Hillary

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Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:33 PM

Feb 2016

Goblinmonger

(22,340 posts)

14. Beat me to it.

Reply to Duckhunter935 (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:41 PM

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NewHampshiriteGuy

(95 posts)

6. Kamala Harris

Reply to Lint Head (Original post)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:36 PM

Feb 2016

SCOTUS should look more like the rest of the nation, and there has never been an african american woman on the supreme court, and she is surely qualified.

Joe Biden would be another option, demographically not a shift, but a nice retirement gift for a lifetime progressive!

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)

8. That would be great. I would love to see the GOP Senate

Reply to NewHampshiriteGuy (Reply #6)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:38 PM

Feb 2016

committee look like the racists they really are.

Yavin4

(35,442 posts)

11. My choice as well. And, it would freak out Clarence Thomas. n/t

Reply to NewHampshiriteGuy (Reply #6)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:39 PM

Feb 2016

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)

15. Ha ha! Perfect.

Reply to Yavin4 (Reply #11)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:41 PM

Feb 2016

Bohemianwriter

(978 posts)

7. How about Lawrence Lessig?

Reply to Lint Head (Original post)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:38 PM

Feb 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)

13. That would be a smart choice.

Reply to Bohemianwriter (Reply #7)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:40 PM

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Bohemianwriter

(978 posts)

18. At least then we would rest assured...

Reply to Lint Head (Reply #13)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:42 PM

Feb 2016

That the Citizens United's repeal would be imminent...

Siwsan

(26,268 posts)

10. Jennifer Granholm

Reply to Lint Head (Original post)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:39 PM

Feb 2016

I seem to remember she was on 'the list', the last time around.

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)

12. She would be great!

Reply to Siwsan (Reply #10)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:40 PM

Feb 2016

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)

16. President Sanders should appoint Obama.

Reply to Lint Head (Original post)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:41 PM

Feb 2016

That will serve the GOP right.

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)

17. Yep.

Reply to lumberjack_jeff (Reply #16)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:42 PM

Feb 2016

mvd

(65,174 posts)

19. Anyone but a conservative!

Reply to Lint Head (Original post)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:43 PM

Feb 2016

Don't show the Repukes any respect they haven't shown us. And this Repuke Congress will likely try to stonewall anyone to the left of Scalia anyway.

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

20. I predict Sri Srinivasan

Reply to Lint Head (Original post)

Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:48 PM

Feb 2016

What do you think?

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

21. John Conyers

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Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:48 PM

Feb 2016

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