Share this on Facebook Share this on LinkedIn Tweet This! Email this via Gmail Subscribe to the comments for this post? I remember when Steve Lubet questioned whether former Solicitor General Ted Olson should be allowed to argue that the federal campaign finance reform statute was unconstitutional in Citizens United, because, as Solicitor General, he [...]Read Full Story
" The fundamental right is marriage -- it's not interracial marriage, it's
not same-sex marriage -- it's marriage. "
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" We don't allow religion to drive our laws, because that's a 1st
Amendment Anti-Establishment issue. "
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" Because it's 'always been that way'
is not a rational basis "
-Ted Olson
Marriage is a Fundamental Right [Cato]
( *note : we'll post Olson & Boies' Cato
panel as soon as it's available. It's not yet. )Read Full Story
AFER attorney Ted Olson and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (pictured) have penned a joint opinion piece in the New York Daily News arguing that civil unions are no substitute for marriage equality.Read Full Story
Karen Ocamb at LGBT POV has posted a great set of interviews from the Elton John AFER anti-Prop 8 benefit that was held in Beverly Hills Wednesday night.Read Full Story
What many have seen as a very narrow ruling from the 9th Circuit, attorney Ted Olson actually sees as a broad ruling. He also talks to Rachel about why conservatives are so slow to get on board with marriage equality....
Olson, a
former U.S. solicitor general and co-lead plaintiff’s attorney in the
Prop. 8 case, called Tuesday’s Ninth Circuit ruling “very broad,” despite the court's narrow application of its decision to California and not other
states over which it has jurisdiction.
Hello and welcome to Sunday Profile. I'm Richard Aedy. Today the deeply connected Conservative Republican fighting for gay marriage. Ted Olson is one of America's most successful lawyers. His advocacy has arguably determined recent American history.
Bush's former solicitor general Ted Olson is standing up defending gay/lesbian Americans and applauding today's decision ... Also, February 28th is earliest conceivable date gay-marriages could restart. However, Olson assumes the other side will push ...
Ted Olson and David Boies
I told you so.
Back in May 2009 when Ted Olson and David Boies filed the AFER complaint challenging the constitutionality of Prop 8, I told you not to dwell on its efforts to establish a freestanding right to same-sex marriage under the Equal Protection Clause, but rather to focus on Paragraph 43's allegation that "The disadvantage Prop. 8 imposes upon gays and lesbians is the result of disapproval or animus against...
The Obama administration pursuit of the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers is akin to McCarthyism at its worst or Richard Nixon’s enemies list ... Olson said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed article. Olson – now an attorney with the ...
Chugging Hurricanes and flinging Mardi Gras beads at dewy co-eds? No, that’s not how David Boies and Ted Olson roll. The veteran litigators were at an American Bar Association meeting to discuss the crisis in state judicial funding (more on ...
Ted Olson news. Former Solicitor General Ted Olson has been considered as an attorney-general nominee. His wife was on one of the hijacked planes during the 9/11 attacks.
Theodore Bevry Olson (born September 11, 1940) was the 42nd United States Solicitor General, serving from June 2001 to July 2004. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Olson completed his undergraduate degree at
Theodore B. Olson was the 42nd Solicitor General of the United States. He was nominated by President Bush on February 14, 2001, confirmed by the United States Senate, and took the oath of office on ..
Slate - Huckleberry Hound : For the past few weeks, the entire political world has watched the people of Idaho come to terms with a Republican who opposes gay rights but pleads guilty to toe-tapping i