Original Blog Entry: Bill Clinton: Hillary too old to be appointed to Supreme Court

truesee — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:53:29 GMT

Bill Clinton: Hillary and I are too old to be appointed to the Supreme Court

David Saltonstall

DAILY NEWS SENIOR CORRESPONDENT

Sunday, April 18th 2010, 4:17 PM

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Bill Clinton says that President Obama should consider someone younger to fill the recently vacated Supreme Court post -- not his wife, Hillary Clinton.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have both held big jobs in their lives, but the ex-president said Sunday that Supreme Court justice shouldn't be among them - they're too old.

I'd like to see him put someone in there, late 40s, early 50s, on the court, and someone with a lot of energy for the job, the 63-year-old Clinton told ABC's This Week when asked about President Obama's upcoming replacement of Justice John Paul Stevens.

Since Stevens, 90, announced his retirement, both Clintons have been mentioned as possible - albeit long-shot - nominees to the high court.

The former president predicted that no matter whom Obama nominates, he should expect a fight from Senate Republicans.

But the ex-president said he and his wife, Secretary of State Clinton - who met at Yale Law School in the early 1970s - would counsel the president against picking either of them.

She would be good at it, Clinton said of his wife, 62, adding that at one point in her life, she might [have] been interested.

But she's like me, you know, we're kind of doers, Clinton said. I think if she were asked, she would advise the President to appoint some 10, 15 years younger.

As for himself, I'm already 63-years-old, said Clinton, who neglected to mention that his law license was suspended for five years after he left office as part of a settlement over the Monica Lewinsky affair.

I hope I live to be 90, he said. I hope I'm just as healthy as Justice Stevens is. But it's not predictable.

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