I received a facebook notice for a ‘campaign‘ to have Pres. Obama nominate Kathleen Sullivan to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court:
Kathleen Sullivan is hands down one of the most qualified candidates. She is a Marshall scholar and former Stanford Law dean whom constitutional law legend Laurence Tribe once called “the most extraordinary student I had ever had.” She is the author of the nation’s leading casebook in constitutional law, has litigated before the Supreme Court, and has been named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by the National Law Journal. Sullivan was also a professor of law at Harvard Law School from 1984 until 1993. She joined Stanford Law School in 1993 and became the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law in 1996. Sullivan then served as the dean of Stanford Law School from 1999 until 2004, when she voluntarily stepped down to serve as the inaugural director of a new Stanford center on constitutional law. Since 2004, she has been the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.
In addition to this impressive list of qualifications, Sullivan is also a woman and openly gay which would bring some much needed diversity to the Supreme Court.
But at what cost?
Is she Janice Raymond with a J.D.? Winnie Stachelberg with, well…, anything?
Actually, a better question might be: Does anyone who is pushing this ‘campaign’ give a shit?
I’m being honest here by saying that I don’t know what her position is on trans people and/or issues – but that appears to be more consideration to the possibility of yet another political rape of trans people by gays and lesbians who don’t give a shit about the reality that far too many gains for gays and lesbians have not been neutral for trans people; they’ve actually caused us to lose ground politically and legally.
Sullivan would become the first ever openly gay Justice and third female Justice in United States history to serve on the Supreme Court leading to a Court that more truly reflects the composition of the American population.
You mean the way that the workforce at HRC reflects the LGBT population? If so, I want none of it.
