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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Politics
Chris Megerian

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have very different visions for Supreme Court

Perhaps no single presidential decision is as consequential as choosing Supreme Court justices, and Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump outlined divergent views on how they would approach the issue.

Clinton said she wants people "who understand the way the world really works, who have real-life experience." She emphasized the need for justices to protect voting rights

"I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose," she said, "and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality."

Clinton also criticized Senate Republicans for refusing to allow President Barack Obama to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left after the death of Antonin Scalia earlier this year.

Trump held up Scalia, a conservative who opposed same-sex marriage and abortion, as a model justice.

He said he already had a list of 20 candidates "so that people would see, highly respected, highly thought of, and actually very beautifully reviewed by just about everybody."

He also talked about protecting the right to own A gun, which he described as being under siege by "people like Hillary."

"They'll respect the Second Amendment and what it stands for, what it represents," he said. "So important to me."

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