{"id":5311,"date":"2009-05-05T10:04:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T10:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/05\/05\/will-obama-nominate-a-lesbian\/"},"modified":"2009-05-05T10:04:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T10:04:49","slug":"will-obama-nominate-a-lesbian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/05\/will-obama-nominate-a-lesbian\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Obama Nominate a Lesbian Law Professor for the Supreme Court?"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s “lesbian” as in “a lesbian person” not a lawyer who specializes in “lesbian law,” whatever that might be.<\/p>\n


\nMost people think Obama will pick a woman, in part because only one of the nine seated justices is female at present. But it appears that at least one short list is forming up that includes even additional diversity. The list of candidates that has been circulated by the AP<\/a> includes Kathleen Sullivan, openly gay, who if memory serves would have overlapped with Obama at Harvard Law (he may well have taken classes from her).<\/p>\n

Kathleen Sullivan<\/strong>, former dean of Stanford Law School.<\/p>\n

Born in 1955 in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Received law degree from Harvard University in 1981. Openly gay. Worked as law professor at Harvard University from 1984-1993. Worked as law professor at Stanford University from 1993-1999. Served as dean of Stanford law school from 1999-2004. Works as law professor at Stanford University. Was involved in legal teams fighting for LGBT rights before the US Supreme Court including Bowers v. Hardwick in 1986 where the court upheld Georgia’s criminal sodomy law and in 2003 Lawrence v. Texas where the court overturned sodomy laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s “lesbian” as in “a lesbian person” not a lawyer who specializes in “lesbian law,” whatever that might be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33,4758],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1nF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}