State legislative leaders urged Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday to “make history” by nominating the first openly LGBTQ justice to the California Supreme Court.

“We encourage you to seize the historic opportunity presented with the retirement of Associate Justice Ming W. Chin,” Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and Assemblyman Todd Gloria, D-San Diego, wrote in a letter to Newsom on behalf of the Legislative LGBTQ Caucus.

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