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The Advocate
7/6/2009
"In American politics, few events signal the political arrival of a minority group more powerfully than a Supreme Court nomination. When President Obama tapped Sonia Sotomayor ? making her the first Latina to be nominated for service on the high court ? it was an important nod to the growing political clout of Hispanic-Americans.
"...'While people of color and women continue to be underrepresented at all levels of the federal judiciary, "out" LGBT judges are nearly invisible among their ranks,' wrote Kevin Cathcart, Lambda Legal executive director, in a letter to the White House."