Hillary’s Supreme Court ‘Litmus Test’

Please keep in mind that this article comes from the Washington Post, which has rarely shown any neutrality (let alone love) for Hillary or Bill Clinton. The Beltway elite hate her (Henry Louis Gates and Ernest Partridge have examined this phenomenon from very different angle), and now WaPo journos Matea Gold and Anne Gearan relate a story calculated to have the right shrieking, “See? That harridan wants to politicize the courts!” You know they’re going to talk about this as if it’s a bad thing:

Hillary Clinton told a group of her top fundraisers Thursday that if she is elected president, her nominees to the Supreme Court will have to share her belief that the court’s 2010 Citizens United decision must be overturned, according to people who heard her remarks.

Clinton’s emphatic opposition to the ruling, which allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited sums on independent political activity, garnered the strongest applause of the afternoon from the more than 200 party financiers gathered in Brooklyn for a closed-door briefing from the Democratic candidate and her senior aides, according to some of those present.

“She got major applause when she said would not name anybody to the Supreme Court unless she has assurances that they would overturn” the decision, said one attendee, who, like others, requested anonymity to describe the private session.

If the make-up of the court does not change by 2017, four of the justices will be 78 years of age or older by the time the next president is inaugurated.

Clinton’s pledge to use opposition to Citizens United as a litmus test for Supreme Court nominees echoes the stance taken by Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is challenging her for the Democratic nomination.

Georgetown “socialite” snobs are probably saying, “See? She wants to trash the place all over again!” As if the Beltway’s media and money elite haven’t stumbled over each other doing that very thing. ‘Nuff said!

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