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Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton suggested Sunday night she might avoid lawyers who worked at “a big law firm and maybe clerked for a judge” without “real life experiences” in picking nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court if she is elected.
Instead, Clinton said she would look for lawyers who “tried some real cases and understand what people are actually up against.”
Democrat Clinton and Republican Donald Trump spoke about the court with only a few minutes left during their second televised debate Sunday night at Washington University in St. Louis. An audience member asked how they would go about making Supreme Court appointments.
Clinton said “The current court is on the wrong direction,” asserting that she wanted a Supreme Court that “doesn’t always side with corporate interests” in decisions like the 2010 campaign finance ruling known as Citizens United, which she said should be reversed.
Her comment about big law firms may have been directed at Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., who was a top appellate advocate at Hogan Lovells and is one of the few recent nominees with extensive private law firm experience.
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