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Ted Olson goes to court on behalf of gay marriage | Washington Examiner
Former Bush administration solicitor general Theodore Olson is part of a team that has filed suit in federal court in California seeking to overturn Proposition 8 and re-establish the right of same-sex couples to marry.
The suit argues that the state’s marriage ban, upheld Tuesday by the California Supreme Court, violates the federal constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry. The complaint was filed Friday, and Olson and co-counsel David Boies — who argued ...
TED OLSON goes to court on behalf of gay marriage….
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TED OLSON goes to court on behalf of gay marriage.
Bush Solicitor General, Ted Olson, explains why he's now for gay marriage
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... strategist Steve Schmidt, now supporting gay marriage. Moderates in the Republican party - or perhaps more accurately, conservatives - are suddenly speaking out with more moderate views. The irony is that we always wanted moderate/liberal Republicans to stand up and denounce the culture wars. To take their party back. But instead, we have a growing number of conservatives who are washing their hands of the religious right and its phobias. Read what Olson said to Byron York at the Washington Examiner about his work on the Prop 8 case: "I personally ...
Top GOP lawyer sues for same-sex marriage
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... marriage in that state. Olson joined his 2000 opponent in the infamous Bush v. Gore, David Boies, to file suit in a federal circuit court to overturn the proposition, upheld by the California Supreme Court on Tuesday. The suit argues the ban violates the rights of same-sex couples. "I personally think it is time that we as a nation get past distinguishing people on the basis of sexual orientation, and that a grave injustice is being done to people by making these distinctions," Olson told the Washington Examiner . "I thought their cause was just." The suit is a bit of a ...
New Prop 8 challenge from … Ted Olson?
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... After yesterday’s ruling from the California Supreme Court upholding Proposition 8’s ban on gay marriage but allowing the already-existing gay marriages to remain legal, I predicted that an inventive attorney would attack the judgment in federal court on equal-protection arguments arising from that Solomonic split. That challenge came more quickly than even I predicted, and from an unusual choice of attorneys. Byron York profiles Ted Olson’s decision to make a federal case out of Prop 8: The suit argues that the state’s marriage ban, upheld Tuesday by the California Supreme ...
Olson for marriage
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... Byron York talks to Ted Olson, who, by taking on a federal constitutional challenge to Prop. 8, has cemented his status as the left's favorite conservative lawyer: ...
The Conscience Of A Conservative
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Republican legal icon Ted Olson joins the federal suit to overturn Prop 8: "It is our position in this case that Proposition 8, as upheld by the
California Supreme Court, denies federal constitutional rights under
the equal protection and due process clauses of the ...
Gay Marriage Advocates Go Nuclear
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... for all the marbles , folks either they succeed in using the federal courts to impose gay marriage nationwide, or they hand the victory to their opponents. Former Bush administration solicitor general Theodore Olson is part of a team that has filed suit in federal court in California seeking to overturn Proposition 8 and re-establish the right of same-sex couples to marry. The suit argues that the state's marriage ban, upheld Tuesday by the California Supreme Court, violates the federal constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry. The complaint was filed Friday, and ...
