Klobuchar for Supreme Court?

Could Sen. Amy Klobuchar be on a short list of potential Supreme Court justices? That was the chatter on Meet the Press Face the Nation Sunday morning. The talking heads discussed the possibility that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens might retire and speculated that Klobuchar might be a likely candidate for the job.

FTN host Bob Schieffer asked, “There’s some interesting speculation that Sen. Amy Klobuchar might be on the list.”

“She’s a really impressive person,” said [CBS News Chief legal correspondent Jan] Crawford. “She’s got prosecutorial experience, and people are always clamoring for someone off the judicial monastery. This court’s got all former federal appeals court judges.

“But she is a Democrat from a state with a Republican governor [Tim Pawlenty], and so if you’re thinking politically about who you’re going to put on the court, and certainly Obama did last time with Sonia Sotomayor, [Klobuchar]‘s not the one you.”

Pawlenty could appoint a Republican to fill Klobuchar’s vacant Senate seat, said Crawford, and the White House wouldn’t want that.

Here’s the full video of the exchange:

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