Elena Kagan?

[NewYorkExpress]

Would current Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan make a good 2016 candidate?

People have run for President from the Court in the past like Charles Evans Hughes... Kagan is young enough (Born in 1960) and probably would be acceptable to most Democrats;

The Questions are as an Obama appointee, could she win a general election?
And would she be willing to trade a lifetime appointment for a term-limited one (although I suppose if she really wanted to return to the Supreme Court, and there happened to be a vacancy at the end of her second term she could in theory appoint herself)

[Maxwell]

Do you think before you post? Just asking.

[Zioneer]

Do you think before you post? Just asking.

I really don't think he (or she) does.

[Mister Mets]

Answering the question seriously, it seems unlikely.

Her background is that of someone who wanted a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

She doesn't have any particular constituency, and leaving the court to run for President would put the party in an awkward position, necessitating a new confirmation.

While Supreme Court members have run for office in the past, it hasn't happened in a while. And when it did happen it was usually a former officeholder. Hughes was former Governor of New York.  Salmon Chase had been Senator and Governor in Ohio.

The current Supreme Court is unique in that it doesn't include anyone who held elected office. The last to do so was Sandra Day O'Connor, a former Arizona State Senator.

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This is almost as bad as the Evan Bayh thread.

[Suburbia]

This is almost as bad as the Evan Bayh thread.

The Evan Bayh thread was not bad, if Democrats have a weak bench and if Hillary does not run, he could be a presidential prospect or a VP choice.
Kagan could run if she wants, (if the Democratic bench is weak and Hillary does not run). I don't know if she can win the general election.

[SWE]

This is worse than a bronz4141 thread