Hillary Clinton was asked by an Iowa voter at a town hall event what she thought of appointing President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court, and she seemed delighted by the prospect. | AP Photo Hillary Clinton thinks Obama on the Supreme Court is a 'great idea'

DECORAH, Iowa — Get ready for the toughest confirmation battle of all time.

Asked by an Iowa voter at a town hall event here what she thought of appointing President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court if she were to become president, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton seemed delighted by the prospect. “I’ll tell you, that’s a great idea!” a beaming Clinton told the crowd of 450 packed into a theater, noting that she’d never heard the question before.


Cautioning that Obama likely has other plans for his post-White House life, the former secretary of state continued her recent pattern of tying herself closely to the current president.

She used the chance to segue into her usual talk about the importance of electing a Democratic president for the sake of appointing Supreme Court justices, but then warned that it would likely be difficult to confirm Obama — not exactly a popular figure among Republicans — unless Democrats take back the Senate in 2016.

Still, “I would certainly take that under advisement,” she said of the man who would be the first former president on the Supreme Court since William Howard Taft. “He is brilliant and can set forth an argument."