Obama: No judgeship for me

President Obama is probably thinking about life after the White House, but he is ruling out one option: Becoming a judge.

"When I got out of law school, I chose not to clerk," Obama told The New Yorker magazine in an interview. "Partly because I was an older student, but partly because I don't think I have the temperament to sit in a chamber and write opinions."

That's not unusual, Only one president — William Howard Taft — became a judge after working in the White House, becoming chief justice of the Supreme Court.

The New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin, who wrote about Obama's efforts to shape the federal judiciary, asked the president if he entertained thoughts about becoming a judge.

Obama, who will be only 55 years old when he leaves the White House in January 2017, did sound intrigued by the idea:

"I love the law, intellectually. I love nutting out these problems, wrestling with these arguments. I love teaching. I miss the classroom and engaging with students.

"But I think being a justice is a little bit too monastic for me. Particularly after having spent six years and what will be eight years in this bubble, I think I need to get outside a little bit more."