Pelosi backs stock trading despite efforts to ban

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that lawmakers should be able to trade stocks while in office, adding that if the law is changed, Supreme Court justices should also be subjected to a ban.

“I do come down always in favor of trusting our members,” the California Democrat said Thursday. “Now, if the impression that is given by some that somebody is doing insider trading, that’s a Justice Department issue, and that has no place in any of this. But to give a blanket attitude of ‘we can’t do this and we can’t do that because we can’t be trusted,’ I just don’t buy into that.”