Bernie Sanders Presses Hillary Clinton on Her Views on Banks

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont edged closer on Friday to directly attacking Hillary Rodham Clinton, pointedly asking whether the Democratic presidential front-runner would support measures to break up the country’s largest financial institutions and reinstate a firewall between commercial and investment banking.

Mr. Sanders, whose campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination has galvanized liberal activists driven by questions of economic fairness, highlighted his efforts to cut down the so-called too big to fail banks and restore Glass-Steagall, the Depression-era banking law repealed under President Bill Clinton. “You’ll have to ask...