His point: By focusing on whether clerks were recruited from the courts of Republican or Democratic-appointed federal judges, writer AdamLiptak ignores the historic shift in the federal judiciary between 1975 and the present.
CNNMoney's Jose Pagliery and CNN's Adam Aigner-Treworgy, Brianna Keilar, Jessica Yellin, Deirdre Walsh, Ted Barrett, Greg Botelho and Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.