Biden: 'No desire to sit on the Supreme Court'

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/269959-biden-no-desire-to-sit-on-the-supreme-court

February 18, 2016, 09:08 pm
Biden: 'No desire to sit on the Supreme Court'

By Harper Neidig

Vice President Biden says he has no interest in being Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s replacement.
 
“I have no — look at me, now — I have no desire to sit on the Supreme Court. None,” he said Thursday in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, who had asked him about a rumor that he would be President Obama's pick.
 
The vice president noted that he would be "deeply involved in the selection process.”
 
Biden also had strong words for Senate Republicans vowing to block any potential nominee that Obama puts forth.
 
"They're intimidated by the dominant element of the Republican Party ... the far right," he said.
 
"I don't believe in their heart they think this makes sense," Biden added of GOP senators.
 
"It is a political problem of a different order," he continued. "I don't think it's responsible at all" to stand in the way of the process.
 
Scalia died this weekend in Texas at age 79.

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When was he ever floated for it?  I don't recall him being on any list for SCOTUS, even obscure or joke lists.

[mountaineer]

Good grief. I guess it's too much to hope that the nominee will have practiced law sometime in this century.

[mountaineer]

Scalia revealed his ideal replacement in 2012
By Marisa Schultz
February 19, 2016 | 12:16 a.m.
New York Post

WASHINGTON — Republicans clamoring for the next Supreme Court justice to follow in the ideological footsteps of Justice Antonin Scalia may have just found their road map.

In a newly unearthed 2012 interview on C-SPAN, Scalia revealed his preferred successor: Judge Frank Easterbrook, of the Chicago-based Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

“If I had to pick somebody to replace me on the Supreme Court, it would be Frank,” Scalia said.

Easterbrook, 67, a Buffalo native, and Scalia first met as lawyers in the Ford administration. They also were both on the University of Chicago Law School faculty before President Ronald Reagan tapped them to be judges.

Easterbook delivered the inaugural “Scalia Lecture” at Harvard Law on Nov. 17, 2014, lauding his pal as a fellow originalist, who relies on the intent of founding documents.

Easterbook declined a request for an interview.