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Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenPoll: Biden remains ahead of Sanders by 10 points 2020 forecast: A House switch, a slimmer Senate for GOP and a bigger win for Trump 2020 predictions: Trump will lose if not in the Senate, then with the voters MORE said that he would be open to nominating former President Obama to serve on the Supreme Court during a campaign event in Iowa over the weekend, The New York Times reports.

The brief statement came as Biden fielded questions from supporters at a stop on his presidential campaign in Washington, Iowa, on Saturday as part of this No Malarkey bus tour in the state.

At the event, Biden was reportedly asked bya supporter whether he would nominate Obama to serve on the bench if he were elected president next year.

Biden reportedly responded, If hed take it, yes.

The stop on Saturday was one of three campaign events Biden reportedly held in Iowa over the weekend as part of the tour.

Onlyone president in U.S. historyhas ever served on the Supreme Court: William Howard Taft. Taft, who held office as president from 1909 to 1913, became chief justice in 1921. He served in the latter role until 1930.

Though Obama has not publicly expressed interest in serving as a justice, his legal background stretches back to his time at the Harvard Law School, where he became the first African American tobe namedpresident of the Harvard Law Review in 1990.

Prior to becoming the nations first black president in 2008, he also worked as a civil rights attorney and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago before serving in the Illinois state Senate and eventually the U.S. Senate.

Biden is leading national polls for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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