Almost as frightening as the thought of an Elizabeth Warren presidency.

We Need Elizabeth Warren on the Supreme Court – Truthdig

. . . But for those wallowing in despair at what fellow Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges aptly warns is our fast-approaching “post-constitutional era,” I have two simple words of encouragement: Elizabeth Warren.

Yes, there are many progressives who would much rather see Warren run for president in 2016 than don a black robe to take on Chief Justice John Roberts and his Republican brethren. But Warren isn’t running for president, and even if she were to change her mind, she stands little chance of mounting a successful challenge to Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. She also would be vulnerable, perhaps even more than was first-term candidate Obama, to charges of inexperience in elected office.

By contrast, Warren is unquestionably qualified to serve on the Supreme Court. Even more, she is uniquely positioned to revive the flagging spirits of the left, and help restore the country’s confidence in the tribunal, which has sunk to record lows as the court has moved openly and often cravenly to the right.

Before Warren’s election to the Senate in 2012, she was a Harvard Law School professor and a respected expert in bankruptcy and consumer protection law. She served on congressional panels dealing with bankruptcy reform and oversight of the bank-bailout Troubled Asset Relief Program under the Clinton and Obama administrations, respectively. She also was instrumental in establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

But above all, Warren is and has been for many years an outspoken defender of the vanishing American middle class, and a vocal critic of the current court’s capitulation to corporate interests. In March, the day after the court heard oral arguments in the Hobby Lobby case, Warren posted a foreboding column on her official Senate blog titled, “We don’t run this country for corporations.”