Kamala Harris to Supreme Court would open the VP door for Hillary Clinton

Here are three things I’ve suggested that Joe Biden could do to save his train wreck of a presidency.

First get U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, 82, to retire. All right, that is done.

Now nominate Vice President Kamala Harris to take his place.

And then name Hillary Clinton, 74, to take Kamala’s place.

Presidency saved, at least for now.

If Old Joe is too far gone to seek re-election in 2024 — assuming he is still on the job — then Vice President Hillary Clinton, as heiress apparent, would be the Democrat nominee for president.

In the meantime, Harris would become the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, fulfilling at least one of Biden’s campaign promises.

It is true that Biden said recently he would run again, and that Harris would be his running mate. But that was before Breyer’s announcement that he would retire, thus giving Biden a plum appointment to the high court.

And nobody believed it anyway, given Harris’ less than stellar performance as vice president. Many Democrats would be relieved to get Harris on the court and away from the presidency.

Should a stumbling Biden then resign or be mentally or physically incapacitated and removed from office through the 25th Amendment, Hillary, as the new vice president, would be president without an election. And the Democrats, if not the country, would let out a sigh of relief.

That never-used amendment, by the way, allows a majority of Cabinet members to inform Congress that the president is unable to perform his duties and should be replaced.

Either way, Hillary Clinton would be running for president in 2024, and would face off — and seek revenge — against Donald Trump.

Trump would of course be running for president again. He is the man who not only defeated her in 2016 but humiliated her as well. The event would be the Super Bowl of Grudge Fights.

Far-fetched? Maybe not.

We live in strange times where anything is possible, including the return of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, both of whom believe their election victories were “stolen” from them — Hillary in 2016 and Trump in 2020.

You just know Hillary desperately wants back in. She is already warming up. That is why she recently brushed off and delivered her 2016 election night “victory” speech. She began saying, “I’m going to face one of my most public defeats head-on by sharing with you the speech I had hoped to deliver if I had won the 2016 election. “

All she has to do is change “defeat” into “victory” and rework the rest.

Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.