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Originally Posted by Willravel
Maybe you can elaborate on "power"? It's a bit vague (thus the necessity of the qualifier). Monetary, political, economic, social?
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Sure. I guess my example wasn't as clear as I thought it was.
The kind of power we're discussing means the ability to change the courses of lives and the course of the country. I suppose that it would include your "political power" example but also encompass aspects of monetary and social power.
The Senate is a small pool of legislators that decide lots of things that affect the common man. I'll immediately conceed that SCOTUS has less ability to resolve policy issues (or really have any affect on them at all, except in the grossest terms) but they do appear in the spotlight and have the ultimate authority on legality (in practice anyway, so I'm not counting amendments). I think the fact that this would be a lifetime appointment might hold some interest for Hillary since I personally think that she's never been a huge fan of campaigning (it's seemed obvious to me since the 1992 "60 Minutes" interview).
Dc, if you're right and her personal economics factor into this more than I give credence to, a SCOTUS seat would increase her speaking fee by quite a bit.