Biden open to nominating Obama to Supreme Court if president

by: WFLA 8 On Your Side Staff

Posted: Dec 30, 2019 / 02:41 PM EST / Updated: Dec 31, 2019 / 12:41 PM EST

President Barack Obama, right, honors Vice President Joe Biden, left, during a ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Obama surprised Biden and presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

IOWA (WFLA) — Former Vice President and presidential candidate Joe Biden said he is open to nominating former President Barack Obama for the Supreme Court if he wanted it.

According to the New York Times, Biden was taking questions during a campaign event Saturday in Iowa when he was asked if he’d nominate Obama to America’s highest court.

“If he’d take it, yes,” Biden replied.

Biden, in Washington, Iowa, is asked if he would nominate Obama to the Supreme Court. "If he'd take it, yes," Biden says.
— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) December 28, 2019

If Biden won election and nominated the former president to the court, it would make Obama the second person to ever serve as president of the United States and a justice of the Supreme Court. Twenty-seventh President William Howard Taft is the other.

Obama has not publicly responded to the statement.

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