So I was watching...
Biden Will Nominate Obama to SCOTUS if Elected Viva Frei Vlawg (7:14)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRS8fAtXLIE
~ Viva Frei, 2019-12-29
...and in it was a list of people that were nominated but didn't become Supreme Court judges. On that list was some guy with my same last name, which is not as common as it might sound, but enough that there's no relation. So I looked him up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Harrold_Carswell
" George Harrold Carswell (December 22, 1919 – July 13, 1992) was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida and an unsuccessful nominee to the United States Supreme Court. "
But here's the interesting part...
Later years
" In 1976, Carswell was convicted of battery for advances he made to an undercover police officer in a Tallahassee men's room. In September 1979, Carswell was attacked and beaten by a man whom he had invited to his Atlanta, Georgia, hotel room in similar circumstances. Because of these incidents, Keith Stern, author of Queers in History , alleges Carswell to have been the first homosexual or bisexual nominated to the Supreme Court. "
" Carswell subsequently returned to his private law practice before retiring. He died in 1992 of lung cancer; his wife, Virginia, died in 2009. "
Curious.
It's also curious that I pay attention to this "Carswell" name. I barely notice it when the name Cline or variant spellings come up. I don't recall ever seeing the Stannard or Hannah surnames anywhere. And then there are 4 more names another generation back, and so on. Yet I'm here with just one, from many.
Now whether to post this in /s/USAmerica, /s/history, /s/Justice_v_Injustice, or /s/Sex?
there doesn't seem to be anything here