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.
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I have no inkling what you are driving at. Cheney has said for a long time it is a state’s rights issue. Take it up with him, not me.
I quoted Cheney, not you.
So did I.
Yeah, do you see a pattern of Cheney speaking out of both sides of his mouth?
Take it up with him, not me.
Hey, nothing personal, LOL.
Wasn’t Olson Solicitor General under Dubya?
I heard Obama was on the new stamp, and they had to recall it because people spat on the wrong side.
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