Posted on 05/27/2009 7:02:18 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
President George W. Bush's first Solicitor General, Ted Olson, filed a lawsuit in US district court on May 22 to protest Prop 8, the California law banning same sex marriage.
Joining with his former opponent in Bush v Gore, David Boies, Olson is suing on behalf of two same-sex couples in California, The Advocate reports: Kristin Perry and Sandra Stier of Berkeley, who have been together for nine years and are the parents of four children, and Paul Katami and Jeffrey Zarrillo of Burbank, who have been together for eight years.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
Prop 8 isn’t a “law”.
It’s an amendment to the California Constitution.
Lawyers doing what lawyers do.
Take cases.
Did you all want to fund his living so he can only take cases with which conservatives agree?
Yes, I suppose most people have fungible values these days.
Not only that, it would seem yesterday's California Supreme Court ruling pretty much puts the kibosh on this. Their only avenue left would be the US Supreme Court...
Lawyers have NO conscience. They ALL suck(except for the ones I hire).
Is Ted Olson a bisexual?
I wish his wife was here ... maybe she could straighten him out. What’s with him?
Funny stuff. Hey, didn't you get the Obama nudge, nudge, wink, wink memo? He's solidly behind you. snicker. Besides who else ya gonna vote for?
I have no problem with people (and lawyers) fighting for what they believe in.
If he believes that there’s undue discrimination at hand, he should certainly fight it.
But journalists who see (or intentionally posit) Prop 8 as just another law are different.
Ditto. This is not good.
That's why they filed in Federal Court. This is a big deal. David Boies and Ted Olson are arguably the two finest litigators in the country. They would be a formidable pair any court, and they would be a dream team for any constitutional case.
to post 3 - so he would become destitute if not for his accepting cases like this? For some silly reason I doubt that very much. Where is the line drawn between morality and immorality? Evidently Olsen values money more than righteousness. His choice, but he still sucks.
Sure am glad that Olsen is not sitting on the Supreme Court now. We dodged a bullet on that one for sure.
no kidding, pen
Or "journalists" who include crap like this.
Kristin Perry and Sandra Stier of Berkeley, who have been together for nine years and are the parents of four children
They are two lesbians who have intentionally deprived four children of a father, and aided some man in shirking his responsibility to his fellow citizens of taking care of the children he fathers.
They’ve pulled Vaughan Walker as their judge. I’ll see if I can pull up some judicial info on him.
Jerry Brown as Attorney General will have to answer the complaint - and we all know where HE stands. They should file a 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss for lack of standing (the definition of marriage is not a federal question - it is left up to the states under the doctrine of enumerated powers to define marriage).
Of course, Jerry’s in a pickle with this one, though - he wants to be governor again and he’s got that whole anti-8 stigma attaching to him. Our TEA parties in California on July 4th should be interesting.
I'm thinking Money over Morals as always with lawyers.
As a conservative who respects the constitution, Ted Olson and the conservative majority of SCOTUS if they over turn this ruling I will respect it. But right now, the legal neophyte I am however, I do not see where this case presents anything new that the federal courts have seen since DOMA relegated to the states the right to define marriage.
sure it is. now you know where he stands on the issue and won’t get sandbagged by him if he received a judicial appointment.
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