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New Campaign: Kathleen Sullivan for Supreme Court Justice!
Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire at the end of the current court term after 19 years on the bench. The vacancy will give President Obama his first chance to name a member of the high court and begin to shape its future direction. We are urging the consideration and appointment of Kathleen Sullivan.
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.
If chosen, 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 can read more about Kathleen Sullivan here: http://www.law.stanford.edu/directory/profile/57/
[Note: This campaign is in no way affiliated with either Kathleen Sullivan or the Victory Fund. We put on these campaigns on our own volition because we believe Kathleen Sullivan is extremely qualified for the position and that the larger public should speak out on decisions that affect them.]
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If brilliance made people hot, she would be the hottest woman in the world. She is completely qualified to sit on the Supreme Court AND though she is more left than not, she will put those boys in SCOTUS in their place. Play nice! I fucking adore her and I’ve only heard her in Supreme Court orals. She is FREAKING BRILLIANT… If you are a person who believes in hard work and education, you gotta respect that, straight or gay. SHE WILL BE THE NEXT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE.