Narrowing Down Clinton’s Choices For Supreme Court Nominee
Sri Srinavasan meets all the criteria on Empirical SCOTUS’ list for USSC nominees.
Empirical SCOTUS takes a look at the leading prospects who may be on the list of possible nominees for a Hillary Clinton selection for the U.S. Supreme Court — assuming she ends up in the White House and Donald Trump doesn’t.
Adam Feldman points out that his speculation also assumes that Obama nominee Merrick Garland will not be confirmed by the Senate in a lame-duck session.
All judges on the list aside from Garland are less than 60 years of age. The other criteria were that they had an initial ABA Qualifications rating of “well qualified” and the judge must have gone to a top-five ranked law school.
Feldman singles out Sri Srinivasan of the DC Circuit as the only judge to meet all of the list’s criteria. The India-born Stanford graduate worked in the Office of the Solicitor General, is ranked “highly qualified” and is 49 years old.
