There are two lesbians on various people’s shortlists for Justice Souter’s replacement on the Supreme Court: Kathleen Sullivan and Pam Karlan, both professors at Stanford Law School. (Karlan was a professor at UVa Law when I went there, but I wasn’t in any of her classes.)

I don’t think it’s going to happen — this isn’t a “West Wing” episode — and Karlan doesn’t seem to think she’ll get the nod, or else she would have been less vocal about the vacancy. But some people think Karlan would be a brilliant justice.