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Hillary Clinton told a group of her top fundraisersThursday that if she is elected president, her nominees to the Supreme Court will have to share her belief thatthe 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 than200 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 applausewhen 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.

Clintons 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.

If elected president, I will have a litmus test in terms of my nominee to be a Supreme Court justice, Sanders said on CBS Face the Nation on Sunday. And that nominee will say that we are all going to overturn this disastrous Supreme Court decision on Citizens United because that decision is undermining American democracy. I do not believe that billionaires should be able to buy politicians.

On Thursday, Clintonalso reiterated her support for a constitutional amendment that would overturnCitizens United, a long-shot effort that is nonetheless popular among Democratic activists.

"She said she is goingto do everything she can," the attendee said. "She was very firm about this that this Supreme Court decision is just a disaster."

A campaign spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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