Imagine this: a Democrat becomes president next year and appoints Barack Obama to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat left by the late justice Antonin Scalia. OK, before you say this sounds crazy, let me tell you — it's happened before! If you think back on that seventh-grade history class, you'll remember that in 1921, former President William Howard Taft was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Taft served on the court until 1930.
Here's why it might work:
When asked directly about the posibility of serving on the Supreme Court, back in 2014, Obama seemed torn. He told the New Yorker that he loves "the law, intellectually," but worries that "being a Justice is a little bit too monastic." As it stands, Obama wants to appoint someone else to the court as soon as possible. But if the Republican-controlled Sentate, which must approve his choice, gives him a fight and blocks his nomination until he leaves office, they might just end up with him on the bench . . . however narrow the odds are.