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(Ted)Olson, (David) Boies Unite to Fight Calif. Same-Sex Marriage Ban in Federal Court
Law.com ^ | 5/28/09 | Mike McKee

Posted on 05/29/2009 11:18:09 AM PDT by pissant

Gay-rights lawyers on Wednesday welcomed longtime conservative lawyer Theodore Olson into the fight for same-sex marriage, but warned him and liberal colleague David Boies that they could hurt the cause more than help it by launching an attack on California's Proposition 8 in the federal courts.

"There is no end run around the nitty-gritty work of social change," Evan Wolfson, executive director of the New York-based Freedom to Marry, said in a telephone call. "If it was just about hiring a good lawyer and filing a good brief, we'd have won decades ago."

Olson, who represented George W. Bush in the landmark Bush v. Gore case that decided the 2000 presidential election, and Boies, who was Al Gore's lawyer, stole the post-Prop 8 spotlight Wednesday by holding a press conference to announce the filing of a suit challenging the measure on the ground it violates equal protection under the United States Constitution. A motion for a preliminary injunction was filed Wednesday in San Francisco federal court.

(Excerpt) Read more at law.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: boies; gayagenda; homosexualagenda; lawsuit; prop8; tedolson
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Sounds like Ted is coming out of the closet.
1 posted on 05/29/2009 11:18:10 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Slime ball Olson.


2 posted on 05/29/2009 11:20:16 AM PDT by farmer18th (If you preach "too big to let fail," you're also preaching "too small to let succeed.")
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‘Remember Ted was supposed to bring credibility to Rudy? Now we know what kind of judges he was going to have Rudy appoint? It all makes sense now.
3 posted on 05/29/2009 11:20:25 AM PDT by Friendofgeorge (I LOVE SARAH PALIN)
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To: pissant

Ted Olson & same sex marriage. His wife who died in 911 must be turning over in her grave.


4 posted on 05/29/2009 11:22:11 AM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: Friendofgeorge

It does make more sense now. He probably liked Rudy in drag.


5 posted on 05/29/2009 11:22:46 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant
They are making the exact same argument as the 2nd Amendment incorporation cases are trying to do.

The difference is there is no right to marriage, it is church custom. Government got involved when they realized they could collect fees from the activity.

Nothing prevents anyone from entering into legal agreements about anything. That is what prenuptials are.

6 posted on 05/29/2009 11:23:20 AM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, you surrender your rights.)
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To: lilylangtree

That’s the same thought I had.


7 posted on 05/29/2009 11:25:27 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Berg is a liberal democrat. Keyes is a conservative. Obama is bringing us together already!)
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To: pissant

“I think we ought to do everything we can to tolerate and accommodate whatever kind of relationships people want to enter into.”
- Dick Cheney


8 posted on 05/29/2009 11:26:25 AM PDT by donna (Gasoline usage: Demand dropped 9.6% in 2008; total decline from 2005 thru 2008 was 28%)
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To: pissant

They have forgotten about States Rights. The Feds have nothing to say about what States do.


9 posted on 05/29/2009 11:26:34 AM PDT by RC2
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To: donna

“It should be left up to the individual states”-—

Dick Cheney


10 posted on 05/29/2009 11:27:33 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant
they could hurt the cause more than help it by launching an attack on California's Proposition 8 in the federal courts

maybe they will...
11 posted on 05/29/2009 11:28:37 AM PDT by novemberslady
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To: pissant

How’s that working out for you?


12 posted on 05/29/2009 11:35:12 AM PDT by donna (Gasoline usage: Demand dropped 9.6% in 2008; total decline from 2005 thru 2008 was 28%)
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To: donna

Worked out OK in CA this week


13 posted on 05/29/2009 11:39:51 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

Is there anything a lawyer won’t do for money?


14 posted on 05/29/2009 11:40:16 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obama Tao: Hard work only pays off in the future. Laziness pays off right now.)
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To: Iron Munro

Nope


15 posted on 05/29/2009 11:41:44 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Iron Munro
Is there anything a lawyer won’t do for money?

Most of them draw the line at bestiality on camera.

16 posted on 05/29/2009 11:42:26 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (Life's not fair, people are mean. Get over it.)
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To: CholeraJoe

The Postal Service just had to recall their latest new stamp honoring lawyers.

People couldn’t figure out which side to spit on.


17 posted on 05/29/2009 11:44:30 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obama Tao: Hard work only pays off in the future. Laziness pays off right now.)
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To: pissant

“longtime conservative lawyer Theodore Olson”


“formerly conservative lawyer Theodore Olson”

Fixed.


18 posted on 05/29/2009 11:56:18 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Impeach President Soros!!!)
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"forgotten about States Rights"

Olson is a top shelf member of the Federalist Society.

19 posted on 05/29/2009 12:09:19 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: pissant

I don’t think you’re that naive.


20 posted on 05/29/2009 12:25:34 PM PDT by donna (Gasoline usage: Demand dropped 9.6% in 2008; total decline from 2005 thru 2008 was 28%)
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