Could Obama Nominate an LGBT Supreme Court Justice?http://www.advocate.com/politics/2016/2/18/could-obama-nominate-lgbt-supreme-court-justiceThe Advocate/By Trudy Ring February 18 2016 9:00 AM EST
"The Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of archconservative Justice Antonin Scalia has political observers speculating about who President Obama might nominate, raising the question: How about a nominee from the pool of LGBT legal titans?
That would certainly be groundbreaking, and as the Republican leaders of the U.S. Senate vow to block any Obama nominee, perhaps the president would go ahead and push the boundaries. Among potential LGBT nominees, the name that comes up more than any other is that of Pamela Karlan, a professor at Stanford Law School, former deputy assistant U.S. attorney general, and Roberta Kaplan's co-counsel in Windsor v. U.S., the Supreme Court case that brought down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013. (Later, during her government service, Karlan helped implement the decision.) Also, as clerk for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun in 1986, she wrote his dissent in Bowers v. Hardwick, in which Blackmun disagreed with the court majority's decision to uphold sodomy laws."
