Joe Biden said he would be open to the idea of nominating former President Barack Obama for the Supreme Court, Fox News reports.
Said Biden: “If he’d take it, yes.”


Joe Biden said he would be open to the idea of nominating former President Barack Obama for the Supreme Court, Fox News reports.
Said Biden: “If he’d take it, yes.”
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Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) wants conservative firebrand Pat Buchanan to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Schmitt called Buchanan a “courageous intellectual and political trailblazer,”…
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Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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