CNN’s Toobin Commenting on Scalia’s Clerks: ‘Overwhelmingly White, Male Group’

‘Almost all of his clerks were white men, as you can see, in that group’

COSTELLO: “As we await the casket of Justice Antonin Scalia, all of those people lining up are his former law clerks. I want to bring in Jeffrey Toobin, he is the expert in all things Supreme Court, and it just looks beautiful. Right?”
TOOBIN: “It is really. It is a physical symbol of how close law clerks are to their — to the judge they serve. Many of Supreme Court law clerks go on to prominent positions in the legal community in that group among them are possible Supreme Court nominees themselves. People like Paul Clement, who clerked for Justice Scalia. He was President George W. Bush’s solicitor general and prominent advocate before the Supreme Court — he is in that group. Jeffrey Sutton, another prominent judge on the Sixth Circuit at Court of Appeals is there. Paul Cappuccio, who is the general counsel to our parent company Time Warner — Time Warner is in that group. I don’t see them there. It is — I think you have to say, as you can look, an overwhelmingly white, male group. Justice Scalia — almost all of his clerks were white men, as you can see, in that group. And they are awaiting the arrival of the hearse, in a few minutes, I think.” 
COSTELLO: “Yeah, in a few minutes.”
TOOBIN: “If tradition holds, the justices themselves will appear on the stairway to pay their respects publicly.”

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